This is just some small introductory thoughts from the point of view of a survivor. Hope you find it enjoyable! ^_^
In our world, two common elements we can easily observe are lightness and darkness. Light, associated with the good, the happiness, the understanding and hope in our lives, has its opposite, the negative dark, reflect misery, misfortune, sorrow, and ruin. As with most definable opposites, lightness and darkness being no exception, there is a middle ground, where both extremes have their place and effect. Dim is the plane between light and dark, just as gray stands between white and black. Dim is the place I stand now.
As dusk extended its hand over the sky while day continued on with its transformation to night, I found myself reaching towards the falling sun, grabbing out hopelessly at that which I knew was helplessly far away. Why I did this was unclear to me. Was it because I wished for the day to go on? For light to remain around me and my friends as we idly wasted away our time? I supposed so, as I dreaded the whole and complete darkness, the uncertainty, bleakness, and isolation that night brought to the island. I was hopeless, however, to watch the sun and the clearness of my surroundings fade away.
My hand returned to my side, defeated, as my eyes stared blankly into the distance while water engulfed my ankles from the waves that constantly washed ashore. Standing alone like this was how I often found myself as I shifted so often in and out of reality, trying to find a place in my mind where I can be at ease, where time becomes out of mind and existence becomes unnoticed. It was like this that I spent my days: idle, struggling for survival, eating, drinking, sleeping. I've been merely living. For what purpose? I do not know. I suppose I live because I do not wish to die. Does everything need a purpose? Yes, or so my mind has adopted the habit to think. There is nothing more I that can do to define myself; I cannot. Nothing more than standing here alone in quiet meditation.
I will stand here, however, firm, yet lost, absolute, but fallible, competent, though incomplete, boundless, but completely enclosed, through light and through dark, dim.