The light doesn’t always stay. Sometimes it leaves quietly, sometimes it’s torn out of you, piece by piece, until you wake up one day and realize you don’t recognize the person staring back at you.
I didn’t choose the dark the way people think.
I wasn’t born like this. None of us are. There was a time the light in me was real, soft, unguarded, untouched by the weight of what was coming. I believed in things then…in people, in loyalty, in the idea that staying good was enough to keep the darkness away.