Today is an AWESOME day!  The sun is shining, the bills are paid, there’s good music on the radio, and all is right with the world.  Today is a live in color day!

What does it mean to live in color?  To me it means that I look for the good stuff: the beauty, the unique and challenging parts of life, the things that make me grow and show me the wonder of it all, things that put a giggle in my soul!  And my Soul does love a good giggle!

We tend to walk around in a cloud of fog – same shit, different day.  Basically we fall into a pattern, a rhythm, and we find comfort in it, so there we stay.   Sooner or later, that comfort zone starts to feel stifling, though.  We may not understand that’s what’s causing us to feel that way, but trust me.  When we become stagnate, we’re not growing and living the life we are meant to live.

Life is meant to be experienced, tasted, tried, pushed, explored.  We are not meant to stay stuck in one place or point in our lives.  We are meant to grow, flourish, and prevail.  We are meant to take in as much as we can, while we can, while we are here on this earth.  Life should be seen and lived in color.  It should be savored.  We should all be paying attention to what is around us, not just what we know and are comfortable with.

We get in that zone.  We order the same foods, go to the same kinds of shows, listen to one kind of music, over and over and over again, until we believe that’s all we like, and we’re sticking to it.  I have been there.  I was in a rut for a LONG ASS time.  Then one day, I started caring more about MY life, what my journey was going to look like when I’m old and gray.  Will I have lived life, or just “routined” my way through it?

That’s when I decided I wanted my life to be anything but routine.  I didn’t want to let the everyday challenges and things I HAD to do weigh me down anymore and allow me to remain complacent and bored with life.  I wanted to see what the world REALLY looks like when I added color, when I participated, explored it and allowed myself new experiences and took risks.  So far it’s looking pretty darn good!

I used to think things worked a certain way – get up, go to work or school, come home, have dinner, do chores, watch TV and go to bed – just to get up and do it all over again day after day.  To a certain extent, we still have to do all of those things, but why not add splashes of color to brighten it up, to put a little sass and flair into our days and lives.

Now I experiment with foods I’ve never eaten before, listen to music I wouldn’t have listened to before and am opening myself up to as many new experiences as I can.  I don’t overthink it too much anymore.  I pay more attention to how people, places and things make me feel.  If they make me smile, feel happy, excited or brings me a sense of wonder, I gravitate toward it, if not, I run the other way.

In the coming months I’m forcing myself even further out of my comfort zone – pushing myself in ways I never thought I could or would.  Frankly, I’m thrilled about it and looking forward to my future.  I’m taking back control of my life, and I love it.  It’s never to late to redefine yourself or your future.  We are the authors of our own lives, and we have the freedom to write our own stories.

For a long time black was my favorite color – black and earth tones.  I thought they were classy and what was expected.  Then I decided black was not a good representation of ME, who I was, and what I felt.  I started paying attention to colors and how they made me feel.  The stronger the smile or good feeling I got when I looked at color, the more I started to choose color.  I started finding MYSELF and paying attention to what I REALLY liked, what spoke to me and my soul when I just paid attention.  Today I love color.  Bright colors, orange and turquoise are currently my favorites.

Color is risk, much like life.  Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.  But living our lives in color is not just literally about color.  It’s about our thoughts, activities, who we spend time with, our experiences.  As humans, living this life we were given, we should be trying something new as often as we can.  We aren’t promised tomorrow after all, so the time to live and take a risk is today, is NOW!

I want to find that feeling I had as a kid with each new experience I seek.  I want my heart to race, to feel anticipation, excitement and wonder. I want to live my life in color and wrap myself in the rainbow of life.  I want to be able to look back over my journey and say I tried and did as much as I could.  I experienced new things, I grew myself and my soul.  I lived my life in color.

I really admire people that already know themselves in that way – those who want to grow and are bold enough to live their lives in color.  Those who are brave enough to not make apologies for it or put themselves in boxes to blend in or be accepted.  THAT’S who am and aspire to be.  Frankly anyone that doesn’t accept or appreciate me and my uniqueness can just stay stuck in their mundane, drab life because I’m having a Party with mine and it’s kaleidoscope of color!

Be bold.  Be bright. Take chances.  Risk your heart.  Listen to what your soul is telling you and live your life in Color!