“chasing the light”

It’s not so much that she was chasing the light as she refused to be swallowed by darkness any longer. There comes a point, perhaps several, when one must choose, after all. As though it’s only as simple as a choice. As though one simply decides, “Today I shall chase the light, tomorrow, who knows; but today, why today I have all figured out.” Or perhaps that’s exactly how it’s done. Precisely how. If it’s always a matter of today, today, today, the only moment promised, then perhaps it is exactly like this. What a lovely idea: to chase the light. Almost like a sunflower tracking the sky of one’s depression. Does this make life the sunflower chasing the light, or oneself the sunflower? It’s all a bit too poetic for the likes of me, to be sure. Still. One wouldn’t want to chase the darkness, as though that’s the opposite of chasing the light, when perhaps the opposite is simply not chasing anything at all.

5 Minute Stretch Exercises are a creation of Laura Munson and were learned at Haven Writing Retreats. This prompt was taken from A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson.