When you spent most of your childhood years living in the dark, it’s hard to have a bright self-esteem, not only that but it’s hard to have a positive outlook on the obstacles that life decides to throw at us. Life seems to throw many trials at us throughout the years that an average person usually lives. Although, you may think you have been spending too much time in the darkness and you want to change your way of life, it’s actually easier being said than being done. Ever since I was twelve I started living in the dark. Until one day, I looked around that pitch-black room, I saw a very small ray of light peering in through a tiny crack. At first it burned, I felt invaded by whatever was causing the light. I tried to get up, and I couldn’t move. I tried a second time, and a third still no progress was being made. Then I tried to rock upwards to rise onto my knees, I was so close. I tried one last time; I had finally planted one foot on the ground, I pushed up on my foot. I collapsed and fell onto a hard surface, my body lay still, the ground was so cold. I lay there hoping that someone somehow would find me and help me up. Just then the light was peering brighter. Was this it; could this really be the end? My eyes opened, everything was spinning around me. I almost could have sworn I had seen a manly figure coming towards me in the pathway of the light. I didn’t want to believe this was the end. The figure slowly bent down towards me. “Are you alright?“ he had asked me in the most melodious voice I had heard in all the years I have been trapped in the darkness, utterly alone. He gently put his arms underneath my head, and one securely beneath my legs, and carried me towards the light. I had murmur the question, which I thought would be my last. “Are you the one who will give me my last trial before I leave this horrid place?” He chuckled at my question, and said, “No, I am just an average teenage boy, who happened to hear the sound of a body, your body, collapsing to the ground.” He had set me down on a rock and asked, “Are you well enough to try and walk?” He helped me stand, just then I realized I was finally walking. I wasn’t too sure about the definition of “LOVE,” at that point in time. Now I know the feeling of love, hope, and security. That man had helped me out of that dark place, and helped me to my feet. I finally could face the people around me. Before him I couldn’t even think of myself as a human being, there for I secluded myself. This was the story of darkness that surrounded me.