You are right. And I say this as someone whose words are absolutely, 1 trillion percent guilty when it comes to "itching to see the light"

BUT there was a time when I was shattered - roughly three years ago. Oh, the dark stuff I wrote here. Walks of shame/pain/remorse/regret.

Yet I suspect that, even then, I was looking for a glimmer of light. The "what can I learn from this" moment of epiphany.