Colors - addendum

More thoughts after I published the thoughts

If you haven’t yet read “Colors”, you should. The next few paragraphs will make a lot more sense if you do.

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One day this week as I was trying to sort out in my mind a color to describe myself, I determined I was a lot of things: sad, angry, hopeless, hopeful, observant, deeply feeling, excited. I wondered what color that might be and thought first of the color black. Simplistically, add color upon color into the mix and eventually you get black. But that isn’t exactly true. What you really get when you mix colors together is more often a brown and unless you mix in a black color or dark grey, it is very difficult to get to black.

I finally decided that brown would be the color of me with all of the parts, but it felt a little mentally lazy to choose brown instead of identifying a color. Not to hate on brown - I do like brown and all the hues of brown. But when it comes to picking a color to describe who I am on the inside, there’s just something undesirable about the color brown. Brown. On the inside. I’ll just leave that in the :

Then it occurred to me….. (You probably already arrived there, but it’s been a rough week and it took me a bit.)

AI generated dark brown - looks like chocolate, now I’m hungry

I’m a kaleidoscope. The colors don’t mix together in a kaleidoscope, they remain what they are. Each color is separate and, viewed next to each other, create a beautiful, complex pattern.

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If you’re wondering, does she really argue and question her own thinking in her own thoughts? The answer is definitively, YES! I can go round and round and round.

If you caught the riddle/joke, please tell me in the comments.