sunny place for shadowy people
How do we want to live? Dealing with that question could open a lot of main doors – leading to a contented (happy) life and dignity. But a little side door is creaking: Light (sun) is often used as a plain symbol of life. Shade, however, has more complex connotations (mainly immoral tendencies): 'shady' (dodgy, dubious, doubtful, indecent) or 'shadowy' (mysterious, arcane, cryptic)? I think of people who are considered 'shady' - often the so-called outsiders or mavericks - but who are talented (and even ingenious) people, individuals that live the Kantian categorial imperative, persons who probably feel contented in their everyday lifes while struggling with or being surrounded by our omnipresent enemy 'Social Acceleration' (Rosa 2005). I would call them (lovingly) 'shadowy'.
