"Sounds of Silence" Review: There is no Light without Darkness

I guess anger is like other feelings. It's not about having them, it's what you do with them. - Autumn Blaze

This episode got very special to me, a gift in times where I need it most.
It contains two very important lessons:

Getting angry and letting out your anger in controlled ways is not wrong.

and

You can only have positive feelings if you have negative feelings as well.

The former is what makes this episode so special to me. I have been blamed for showing anger quite a few times in the past. Not at every such occasion I have let out my anger in controlled ways, but even when I did, I was still sometimes blamed for showing anger or for getting angry at all.
Just recently, a mere few weeks ago, I found myself in such a situation where I had to vent something that agonized me in a space that was made for this purpose, specifically, a ranting channel in a Discord server I was in. I let off steam there, even gave a warning at the beginning of my message for anyone who wished to avoid my rant, and as a result I got kicked and banned by the server owner, because they didn't like the things I said during my rant.
It made me falter a little, but I kept going despite the depressions I developed because of this. And now, weeks after this event, an episode of MLP: FiM aired that has a lesson that fits perfectly to my current situation. That this episode aired now just weeks after what happened to me there and while it still affected me, I don't believe in a coincidence here. I think I was meant to see this episode today and I know exactly why.
This episode is meant to build me up again after what happened because, just like I did in this ranting channel, Autumn Blaze vented at an appropriate place when she got angry over it that she couldn't guess what one of her fellow kirins wanted to tell her, behind a rock. She did just the same as me, so the reason why I should see this episode was to give me a confirmation that I acted right and that I haven't done something wrong.
I feel better about this event now, confident and hopeful again, so this episode gave me a very important gift there.

The second lesson, although not related to my current situation, is important to me, as well. Sometimes, I did see people wondering why we also value negative things. Like, why we also enjoy to read sad stories or tragic stories and not just happy ones. And I was always thinking to myself "Because we need to have negative feelings to appreciate the positive feelings".
If we would feel just happy and positive all the time, we would get used to this feeling after a while and not even recognize anymore that we feel happy, because everything would feel the same. But if we feel sad or desperate once in a while, we have something to discern our happy feelings from and this lets them feel fresh and new to us again, so we can still recognize and appreciate them.
The lyrics of Autumn Blaze's song express this beautifully:

"Cause rainbows won't light up the sky, unless you let it rain! And shiny apples sometimes come with worms!"

"You can't give up your laughter because you're scared of a little pain."

Where there is light, there is darkness. Black and white. Good and evil. Yin and Yang. Everything has two sides and comes in opposites. We can't have positive feelings without negative feelings. That's why we also enjoy to read sad stories or why we sometimes like it to feel sad.
It is a brilliant lesson and an important one, as there are many people who don't understand that we need both Light and Darkness in our lives.
This also shows why we should never give up hope. Because if we give up hope, if we succumb to our own belief that everything will always be dark and gloomy for us, if we don't allow ourselves anymore to hope that things will get better, then we trap ourselves in darkness, and to be in constant darkness is just as unbearable as to be in constant light.
I am incredibly grateful for this episode and I love Autumn Blaze for teaching these important lessons.

Comments

[Bronycommander]

Me too and her song was wonderful!