Light

About twenty-odd years ago, like many young children, I was afraid of the dark. My parents’ solution to this was to buy me a nightlight in the shape of a teddy bear that gave a small glow and faintly illuminated my room, thus protecting me from any terrors that lurked in the night. Actually, I wasn’t scared about monsters hiding underneath my bed or anything like that (probably because my bed was very low and there wasn’t any space for a fat evil monster to squish himself inside the space between my bed and the carpeted floor), I was more afraid of whatever terrible monster that skulked behind my bedroom door. Creaking doors swinging open and closed totally freaked me out! Therefore, I always had my door opened wide and secured into place. This proved a problem come winter; see, to have a bedroom heater turned on and warming your room meant closing your door at night. Therefore, I avoided heaters and instead buried myself under layers and layers of blankets. Unfortunately, however, I have always been a messy sleeper and would often wake up in the middle of the night, my blankets kicked off the bed and me a freezing person! Nothing to be done about that but retrieve my blankets, take a quick glance at my teddy bear night light to reassure myself that all possible scary monsters were being held away and return to sleep.

As I grew older, the concept of light vs. dark intrigued me, and I would just like to share with everyone one of my favourite quotes regarding this subject from the book star wars: Revenge of the Sith. The book is written by a man called Matthew Stover, and my favourite quote comes from pg. 406, when Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Anakin Skywalker: “You were the chosen one! It was said you would destroy the Sith, not join them. It was said you were the one who would bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness. You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you, but I could not save you.” I find this particular quote poignant regarding the topic of light because it illustrates the stark difference to be found between the concepts of light and dark.

I’ve just realised: with the topic ‘light’, could I have interpreted the light as the light vs. heavy light? Anyways, never mind, because I’ve just reached the four-hundred word limit. Bye!

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P.S. The floor is open to general comments after you've finished sharing your written piece, and today, Pat (I think she's the one who drives Carol and her seeing-eye dog to Garden City Creative Writers) said she like my descriptions/my use of adjectives. When I mentioned this to mother, she ordered that I post it up onto this blog for her. Dunno why, but here it is. Hope you enjoyed it! :o)