Colors

 Colors                             8-26-2014

By John W. Vander Velden

Have you ever wondered, if you could be defined by a color, what color you would be?  I would have to agree that it is a strange concept to cross my mind on this stormy afternoon.  But colors are tied to many things…emotions for one.  Gold seems to indicate great value.  Red can mean anger or devotion among other things.  Yellow is often associated with happiness.  Purple has been linked to royalty or grandness.  And we all know what label poor blue finds itself bound to.  There is green, fresh and new.  White purity and pink shows youth and desire.  Colors surround us, the world is filled with colors.  Which color are you?

But look closer, the yard maybe green but it is not one green.  The grass is not like someone opened a can of paint and just covered it all with one shade.  Thousands of different hues blend together to form the green of our yards.  Each with different textures, shapes, shades, make up the simple thing we call grass.  This fact is not reserved for the blades we mow, but surround us.  The bark of trees, the flowers in bed and roadside.  Mixes of primary colors in infinite ratios forming everything from the heavens above to the soil at our feet.

Are we so different?  Surely a color might describe our mood at a particular moment but a single shade could never define us…completely.  Each of us are made up of countless facets, thousands and thousands of unique bits of who we are.  These facets change as we change, perhaps daily.  Change as we face new challenges, new opportunities, new experiences.  Even now I am growing, no, not taller and hopefully not broader, but growing mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  If I were a color you could not name it, and the color would always be changing, moving through uncountable blends of red, yellow and blue.  At times bright…other times subdued even dark perhaps, but alive…the colors would live as I live.

I am so many colors…and so are you!

(349 Words)