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Regret
#WritcoRapidPrompt1
Write a short story from your past that involves light or darkness in some way.

My life was good. I didn't realize that for a long time. My parents were well to do and spoilt me with love.

Everyday on my way from school, I came across an old man begging on the streets. His possessions were just a rudimentary walking stick and the torn clothes that covered him. He had some sickness that made him disgusting up look at. He cannot speak. Or I had never heard him speak. He used to walk up to people and beg for money or food. From the looks of it he hardly made any. Whenever he came near me, I used to turn the other way and avoid him. I always had some spare change I could have given him....