By Ryan Mimna
In the cosmological sense, we are flashes of light in the darkness; our meandering lives meaningless to the machinations of the stars. But fear not, for only you can shine the brightest light the universe has ever shown. In those flashes, we are lighthouses to our fellow human beings. So please don’t extinguish that light; I’m trying to find my way back home.
You are the most beautiful light I’ve ever known; you are life. I’m stumbling in the darkness, feeling lost in the nebulous nature of the world. In the darkness, I saw a flash of life.
For its brightest moments only happen in the darkness; that is the beauty of life, the very nature of our existence. So be the brightest light you can be, because that is the beauty of life, my lighthouse.
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