The Light Of A Jedi

I am a Jedi.It’s dangerous to be a Jedi right now.Because right now, the galaxy wants the Jedi dead.
The Jedi religion was pure.It was good, and it was practiced with the sole intention of protecting the light.But as the Clone war began, we forgot who we are, and what we stand for.We got so caught up in destroying the Sith and destroying the separatists that our vision was clouded to a point where we couldn’t see real danger even when it was staring straight in our faces.We didn’t control ourselves anymore, we forgot our training.Even master Yoda, 900 years old, allowed his fear to consume him.We all did…
Doubt, confusion and chaos, things that the galaxy has always had plenty of, were always controlled by the Jedi and replaced with hope.But when the war began, even the Jedi lost themselves in in a well of suffering.So there was no one left to spread hope, no one left who believed.We had become the very thing we’d sworn to destroy.Oh the irony, when our true beliefs taught us never to destroy anything…and so the Sith took over.We were already consumed by the Darkness, so we couldn’t even fight it.And The Galaxy fell into turmoil like never before.
Now, when I look through the force, I see no balance, no light, the connection I was so strong with before, gone.To be replaced with evil.An all powerful Darkness.It engulfs us, controlling the galaxy completely.
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One day, not so long ago, my team and I were on a mission, and although I rarely use the force these days,(just because the fact that I’m a Jedi endangers everyone around me) I meditated and I saw something that I hadn’t seen in ages.A force.A force of light so strong it had to be a Jedi.It was the light of a youngling.The purest form of light there is in the galaxy, but I hadn’t felt it since the Jedi purge, and that was a long time ago, when I was merely a Padawan myself…It was like being reunited with an old friend.The innocence and positivity of a youngling is like no other.They no nothing of greed, power, hatred, doubt or mistrust; only love, and serenity.Their presence is like a warm hug, an overpoweringly bright light.I missed that feeling so much,I had to find it’s source.

And so I did…His name is Ezra.

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.~Albus Dumbledore (from ‘Harry Potter’)

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