Quote of the Day: To light a light is to cast a shadow. One cannot exist without the other.

Quote of the Day: 

To light a light is to cast a shadow. One cannot exist without the other. 

Response:

What does this quote mean? 

"There's always bad in the good, and always good in the bad". The light represents as the bright future you've moved on to, and the shadow represents the dark past you've left. With every good that appears in life, it comes with a shadow (the bad), and every shadow in life is only formed by the existence of light (the good). 

What shadows have you cast on yourself? 

There's many shadows we've cast on ourself that we are aware of and some that we aren't. A shadow that so many teenagers have cast on themselves is using devices and get so caught up in the world of media that we've started neglecting the nature around us. The light in this case would be the devices and the knowledge we are getting off of them, but the downside to it, the shadow, would be neglecting the nature and avoiding the people around us. Now that's what most people these days think, but the reality is the opposite. The light is the nature and the people around us we should be spending time with, but instead the shadow over us, the devices are taking over our lives, our time and we're in an illusion of it being the best thing but it's actually not. 

Describe how a character in a text you have read has experienced the same thing? 

Once I read a book in which a girl always wanted to succeed in everything she did. She started as a middle schooler with a crazy obsession for sports and her small group of 4-5 friends helped all they could and motivated her, and brought the best out of her and got her to the regional games, and once she won from there, she forgot all those who helped her get till there. The light she saw was the achievements she was getting, but the shadow there was the people she was forgetting while being illumined by the light.