Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

We all have a darkness within us, it stems from our past. When we can forgive ourselves and not worry about what other people think, we can begin to walk in the light… When we live in today we can have our brightest future.

I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the other business that occupied my brain, but I wouldn't unlid those boxes until I was ready to hear [his] stories again as they wanted to be heard.

Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

Positive change happens when darkness is exposed to light