"One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light."
-Neal Shusterman
So I really love Neal Shusterman, he's written a really profound book—called Unwind—about morality and what it means to be alive. Some people have different views on his books because although it's a 'middle school age,' novel, it has quite a serious topic. You can find the book here. But, that all aside, I really love this quote. Often times, a certain question is asked, "Are you a good person?" If you answered 'yes,' you're wrong. And if you answered 'no,' you are also wrong.
For some reason, we believe that we are a very binary people. We're either right or wrong, good or bad, nice or mean. But the truth is we're not all one thing or another. We're neither good or bad, we're both. And this is why I love this quote so much. It puts the thought so eloquently. Every day is different, you can't be a good person all the live long day. We're human and we make mistakes; now don't get confused, that doesn't mean we should give up. That means that we should improve ourselves and try to do better next time. That is the whole reason for life; to improve yourself and be the very best version of you, that you can be. If we make the wrong decision, we are technically in the 'dark,' but there's always a way to step into the light. People are never all in the light or all in the dark, but there's certainly a way to be more in the light than the dark. Moving in and out of darkness only means we're human, but hopefully we're the kind of human who likes the light, not like Hitler or anyone; he definitely liked the dark.
