This little light of mine

Chapter 1

Quest: Return of the Light

Quest step: Reborn

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Light and Dark. 

The concept has been around for damn near all of human history. Light is good. Dark is bad. It's so widely known, so widely accepted. It's almost basic human instinct at this point. We were all scared of the dark as kids because the dark is scary, it's unknown. The Darkness is an amalgamation of every conceivable bad thing there ever was or will be. 

It's evil. 

Whereas the Light is the opposite. The Light represents all the good things the world has to offer. Again, it's almost basic human instinct. No one is scared of the Light because it chases away the darkness. It is an amalgamation of every conceivable righteous thing there ever was or will be. 

It's good.

This is a simple fact of life. For thousands upon thousands of years, humans have upheld this belief. They have blindly accepted the idea that the dark is bad and the Light is good. They based religions on it. The very concept of heaven and hell is simply an elaborate portrayal of Light and dark. 

As with most opposite things, humans pit the two against each other. With Darkness representing all evil and the Light representing all good, how could they not? Again the idea of heaven and hell. Hell is for the sinners, the evil people. At the same time, the paradise of heaven was for the righteous, for the good people. 

The cosmic battle between the two is as old as time. The forces of good versus the forces of evil. This notion has invaded our lives like a thief in the night, from entertainment to politics. Unknowingly everything is shaded to look dark or light, good or evil. 

It's almost poetic; the repeated shows about how evil threatens to take over the world, only to be stopped by a heroic warrior of the Light. This belief that Light and dark are two ever-fighting forces of good and evil has plagued humanity for as long as humanity can recount.

The funny part about this?

They were right.

They don't know it. Well, they did, but they forgot. Humans were right though. Despite being chaotic creatures with a knack for self-destruction, humans were right about this. The Light is good, and the dark is bad. 

It's baffling, really. How could creatures, who would start wars over the simplest of things, creatures that would rather slaughter themselves than get along, creatures that cannot keep themselves at peace? How could these creatures be right about something so cosmically important? 

It's mind-boggling. 

Humans, as a whole, are mind-boggling. They follow no logic, follow no reason. They love and hate each other with no rationality and would willingly prevent other humans from achieving greatness out of some form of jealousy. 

Would one human achieving greatness not boost the species as a whole? So why would they tear each other down, actively preventing themselves from evolving? 

Humans are an anomaly. I have witnessed many of them kill and torture other humans as they please. The 'kings' and 'queens' of old would rule like tyrants and take everything from their people. What would hoarding all this wealth get them? Would using that wealth to further their species, and if not their species, then at least their kingdom. Would that not be ideal?