Those Sunshine People

I think there ar , when it gets boiled down, two kinds of people in the world. There are Sunshine people and there are dark people.

I'm not talking about colors of skin now. No, I'm not.

I'm talking about people who are ruled by fear and people who accept fear and move on.

Sunshine people are the folks who are terrified by the dark. What is the dark, it's the absence of light. When suns die and stars twinkle out, what is left is the darkness. Sunlight is not forever. Darkness is.

Cities are contraptions of Sunshine people. They create cities to huddle together for they believe safety is in numbers. Even when the predators are among the invited.

They create artificial lights to bring light to the night.

Sunshine people do things because they are afraid. Dark people do things in spite of fear.

Dark people feel fear, but they have accepted the dark as what is and they move on. Whether the sun is shining, light or dark, they move on. They do not hesitate, they do not stop living. They do not seek out things to fight the darkness, they work with it.

They see light as a tool, to help them see but not as a replacement for darkness. They know the light will eventually go away. Batteries die, generators run out of fuel, the sun sets, candles burn down. The dark is always what remains.

Are dark people afraid? Of course they are. They don't let fear control them though. They don't let fear be the motivating force in their lives. Thy fight to stay alive not because they fear death, but because they love life. They accept death when it comes, but they hold onto life as long as it's there to grab onto. To enjoy it, to live it.

Sunshine people are afraid of death. They spend their entire lives running form death, hiding from it. Searching for ways to put off the inevitable. They don't enjoy their lives. They are to afraid and to busy trying to collect as many things as they can to ward the darkness off.

In the end, the true survivors will be the dark people. One day, the lights will go off. The sun will set and they will be over run by fear.

The dark people will keep living and doing as they always have. Adapting and doing things as they need to stay alive. While the sunshine people coming running, begging for shelter and protection form all the things they fear.