What is it to be colorful?
In considering our “full” word this month, Dr. Macur suggested “colorful/color-full,” noting that, when describing personalities as colorful, we tend to be speaking of folks who have a quirky way about them. These beings readily show a fuller range of themselves, allowing all of their colors to shine brightly, no matter what is popular in culture at present. Oftentimes it is the most colorful people who are the innovators of the day, expanding their own awareness beyond the limited palette of the status quo, thus raising the vibration for all of humanity.
Of course, we do not only show our colors externally, via the personality. Our inside worlds and own viewpoints take on lenses of different colors as well, the hues dependent upon our individual experiences. This concept is helpful when faced with a view that is dissimilar from our own — remembering to consider that each of us perceives, acts and responds based on what we gather in life, through our own particular lenses. Rather than devaluing a personal truth that differs from our own, through empathy and self-reflection, we have the opportunity to clear the hue of the lens through which we perceive, and find we are not so different from one another, after all.
