The Candle
Stefano Capacchione, Creative Writer
Writing content to make your clients think, feel and take action. Native English writer at Puck Creations. "King of the wholesome blog" according to Jules White.
Lights, camera, action!
The power’s gone out again. Nothing works anymore. We caused this but it’s too late to turn back. If we admit it now, we’d be admitting mass genocide. Does killing the whole human race count as genocide, actually? I don’t know. We stopped searching for new sources of food weeks ago. It became pointless. Everything’s contaminated, which we don’t mind. We’re all riddled with disease anyway but nothing tastes of anything, so what’s the point? We have enough tins here to last about five years and then we’ll just go. We might as well play out the scenes of what life used to be like before we let global warming destroy the world just a little less than the nuclear war that shadowed it. Except we can’t because the power’s gone out again. I can’t even find the candle.
A little light
Sorry if that story seems a little depressing. It was one of our five-minute prompts with "candle" as the given word. When you write in this way, you don't really have time to think through where the idea is coming from or what it means, you just write. It's only reading back on it now that I wonder where my head was at the time. For many, the last few years have been full of pain and laced with sorrow. I've had my own challenges too and sometimes, the combination of external and internal factors can feel overwhelming.
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When I wrote the piece above, I wasn't feeling overwhelmed, I wasn't even feeling sad. I don't think I would have written this if I was. Often, the expression of these kinds of feelings can only come after the fact. I was reflecting on a time where I was dreading the possible future that lay ahead. The difference now is that although I still see so much pain and sorrow, I also see the light that glints from a candle. I see it in the people I love, in the smile of a stranger and in the everyday. Light brings hope and hope is everything.
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1 年Yes the last few years have been grim. But as you say Stefano Capacchione, Creative Writer light brings hope. And also a reminder to me of my A lever RE. Let there be light!