Stained Glass Personalities

Two sides of a window located at a Catholic chapel in Massachusetts. Inside view (at left) and outside view (at right).

   A stained glass window can appear radiant or bland. It depends upon the direction and intensity of light passing through it. 
   People are like stained glass. Some folks convey friendliness and compassion. There's a loveliness to their personalities. Other people convey little of anything. Their personalities are dull.
  When my father got admitted to a hospital, the first employee he encountered, an orderly, offered him no greeting. That orderly had the capacity to cheer up a sick man but chose not to. That orderly was like a stain glass window with little illumination passing through.
   By contrast, another patient at the hospital was friendly to everyone. His personality glowed like stained glass back lit from sunshine.
   Some people reveal brightness and colors. Others mask themselves in murk and gray.