High fit

Brightness is about which direction your mind goes when something bad happens — toward the dark or toward the light. Nathan Weiser, standing in front of the ash where his home used to be, found his brightness landing somewhere unexpected. After ten years of catastrophic loss, his mind went immediately to what was still there — his son, his wife, his family intact — rather than what was gone. This wasn't forced. It was a default that had been rebuilt by experience.