Colors of Youth

Colors of Youth

By Mori’s Prodigy

Dedicated: To My Dear Friends KE. KA, and MN

They say that the Youth today is like a new spectrum of Colors. Back in our day it was Black and white make grey, but now we all have the liberty of choosing what color we mix with. Thats why when a beautiful charming pink approached me asking to mix, i was shocked. Even though its been so long since the change of spectrum i still dont feel the way im supposed to feel because the way my heart feels is different then the way my brain feels, because i dont know what to truly feel.  What do i do? Do i accept the offer to mix? What if we make a ugly color that no one likes? It doesn’t matter now, i’ll just have to accept it. I want to accept it, yet i can’t bring myself to fully embrace it.  I cant bring myself to embrace it because im afraid of what other paints will think about me. I know that there are many people out there willing to support me, but why can’t i have that support from the people that I belong to, why cant the other shades of orange support me?

Everyone is always telling me how I adjusted to the new spectrum of Colors so quickly. How do i tell them that i’ve been living on this new spectrum long before everyone else? They only found out after everyone else found out. Of course, there was a few people who took me being pink the wrong way. They told me how disappointed they were, but im glad i got it out of the way. Of course when i saw such a lovely shade of orange i had to introduce myself, ask to mix. Who knows maybe, just maybe, we’ll make a vibrant peach. 

There truly is no way like the old way. Thats whats been drilled into my head since day one, i was absolutely disgusted when I was trying to enjoy my afternoon in the bucket and i saw a lovely pink approaching the ugliest boggy Orange i had ever layed my eyes upon. What gives them the right to mix freely? Back in my day it was white and black make grey, the way things should have always stayed. I was forced to adapt color, the world forced me to take on this appearance of blue. This society angers me, we have become so weak that we have destroyed all the norms we had in place. A Pink and Orange shouldn’t be mixing, what kind of outlandish behavior is that? If I was punished for trying to mix with a red why do they have the liberty to mix within each other now? Where was that liberty when i was still young? Why must they have what i want? Thats all i ever wanted. To be able to mix freely with my beloved red, but this world was a harsh world, and that was never possible in my time. That is why i envy this new spectrum of color, because they have all i ever wanted.