Light

There was one that hadn't seen light before. Shrouded in black mist, surrounded by darkness as far his empty universe stretched, he didn't know otherwise. Like water flows, days passed without a change, in which he saw the exceptionally dull environment as natural. But one day he stumbled upon a door. He couldn't see it, he could only feel the doorknob. He could walk away, back into the mist where safety had always been secured, or try his luck and see what's on the other side of the door. As if fate had chosen for this moment to happen, he opened the door, and walked into what felt as a new universe, one that revealed everything that had been hidden in the darkness before.

On the other side of the door he entered a new world. A world with a source of light.

The light shone brightly all around him. Everywhere he looked he saw things that he had never seen before. It felt as if he had just awoken from a state of eternal slumber, alchemized from nothing into something. The light showed what had been hidden in the darkness. His view was still quite short though. He ventured into the lands, widening his perspective.

That light showed him happiness. And it showed him pain.

He finally had something that watched over him, something that cared about him. Something that showed the many roads around him. Walking on them, finding out where they would bring him, he discovered a lot more. He found happiness, that was once hidden in the shadows. He found sunshine. He found angels that he got along with. He found roses. And he slowly started finding himself. But the newfound world was also filled with pain. He found rain. He found monsters. He found parasites. He found a ton of phenomena that had never bothered him before, that he had never known the existence of, both positive and negative.

But were the happy things worth staying for? Or were the sad things enough to back?

The source of light wasn't always there either. Sometimes it had to shine upon other places as well, leaving him in the dark again. He felt betrayed. Luring him here, only to not make it worth it. "Why, source of light, would you bring me here, only then to shine for others too? Why bother reaching out your hand, if you didn't plan on holding mine forever from the start? I thought I was special, that I was brought here because I deserved it. But apparently I'm not the only one. Egoistic I may sound, but hurting me it still does." It made him feel alone and afraid.

He didn't want to see anymore. The happiness wasn't worth the pain; after all, you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. He preferred how it used to be, lacking both of those, not feeling anything. But the door to go back didn't exist anymore. The only way to go back is to stop seeing everything. Making everything dark again, and go back into a state of complete nothingness.

But how long can you keep your eyes closed in a world filled with light?