Seeing Green

A friend shared the following video with me after my last post. In it, Jill Thomas describes adjusting to grief in terms of learning to see different colors.

One of the concepts she illustrates that resonated with me: when you've lived your life in one color so long (ex. the cool, comfortable shade of blue), being thrust into a world of a different hue (ex. the brash, jolting shade of yellow) is immensely difficult, and you may find yourself just wanting to return to the world you knew before (sometimes you just feel like yelling, "Give me back my blue!") . However, life is about discovering new colors: by accepting that blue and yellow are now part of you, you discover green. It's new and different, and neither blue nor yellow, and yet both blue and yellow at the same time.

Jill does a beautiful job describing how the paradoxes and seeming contradictions of life give a broader, more vibrant perspective of truth.