The Colors of Emotion by Maggi Norris - Literature - Ask Nem5

THE COLORS OF EMOTION
© Maggi Norris 2001

I once took a class in sand painting. I was fascinated by the way that tiny tool could pull the sand in streams of color that created depth and reality to the image. It reminded me most of the tiny moments that build and gather, each with their own color of emotion to create a lifetime.

Vivid streaks of pain lie side by side with mellow tones of serenity. Bright joyful hues blend with the clarity of tears and the elusive bland colors of emptiness, loneliness. Somehow these colors mesh and blend into the rainbow of emotion that is me. Yet in it all there are the threads of pure color; love, hope, trust, faith. They lie right beside the dark intense emotions that are just as strong as the pure; hate, anger, bitterness, depression.

I hold inside a multitude of color, vast spectrums of emotion. I am many, the spectrum is one. It is all life, held, bound by my one chief desire, survival of life. My own spectrum is a universe of color that is uniquely me.

I watch other universes around me. I see the colors of their spectrum flow and merge and at times reveal so much. But for me, for anyone, there is only one universe, one spectrum I can ever truly understand... my own. My universe is my own perception of reality. It is based on my own unique experiences. Every fine grain of colored sand is a single moment that helped to shape the reality of the universe that is me.

When I took that class I began to realize for the very first time that I had been painting my own universe since my first emergence... birth.

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