Light

There are times in your life when you live in fear, and that fear becomes almost a habit.  Everything in your life becomes ruled by that fear.  Sometimes it takes a friend to call you out on this fear, other times, you have to come face to face with it in some traumatic way.  Either method forces you to make a decision: to stay with the fear or to turn around and face the light. 

There is a saying that you have to walk through your fear.  No, I don't think that's how you conquer your fear.  I think you conquer it when you decide to turn your back on that fear.  It's when you turn yourself completely around so that you don't face the fear anymore, but instead you face Light.  Light which is a heavily used metaphor for love, hope, happiness, and peace. 

Why is Light a metaphor for such things?  I think it is because Light illuminates, it allows you to see things you never could have seen in the darkness.  Most of all, it forces you to look at things the way they are.  The truth of the matter is laid out before you, while in darkness, you would not be able to see or discern what lay before you.  Since humans rely on our senses, and especially our culture, is so orientated on visual stimulation, light being able to illuminate things is so crucial to our lives, our thoughts, and our dreams.