Colors of Life!

Life is full of colors, and the range of shades is incomprehensible. Each moment of life presents us with an opportunity to relish the diverse shades. However, we usually are not present enough to distinguish and appreciate this marvel of life in its true colors. The primary reason is that our senses are often clouded by our thoughts and self-imposed limitations, which does not allow us to stop and bathe in the glory of spectacular shades of life. Our anxiousness to only look at the extremes, label people and situations, get to the conclusion of right or wrong, making assumptions, making a constant comparison, and our need to provide a description of everything does not allow us to experience life in its proper form. In the process, we start to see the faded colors of life, limited to just a few hues. And when life loses its colors, we experience dullness, monotony, and flatness. This results in frustration, animosity, bitterness, enmity, and hostility. The lenses that we wear do not allow us to view, experience, and appreciate the full spectrum of life.

I had similar lenses put on for a long time. I saw what I wanted to see and created a world where everyone and everything has to pass the test of my vision. I failed to see the vividness and vibrancy of life and, in turn, could not experience the richness of life in its true riches. And I even complained that life has nothing much to offer; it is a struggle, something that is full of betrayal, a path full of impediments that we need to cross, something where I need to fight to survive continuously and a passage full of fire that needs to be crossed. But as I removed lenses of my inner limitations, the entire landscape changed; what I was looking at was very different, and people around me changed too. And as I started people and situations for what they are without assigning my own colors to them, I started seeing something unusual, something astounding, and something incredible. Life started showing me the colors I had never noticed, and as the inside filled with colors of openness, the outside became colorful as well. Now I live in the glory of varied shades of life; now I know life is not black and white, but somewhere in the thousand shades of grey as well.