February 5, 2007

Colors

To have color in your life, is to live. Without color, nothing is worth living for. As you take a look around you, you can see that everything is formed around this one concept-color makes the object great. Color brings about appeal in every form, as you look to the objects surrounding you this very moment, without color they would be quite boring. As you find paintings of great people, or scenery, try to imagine the painting with no color at all. This would crush inspiration, blot out hope, and squeeze every last drop of ingenuity out of the world's artist-to have no color to work with.
Color can be the very reason for a good day! As you see the thousand shades of orange and yellow creeping slowly over the mountain every morning as we begin to wake up each day, urging us to get up out of bed and reach our full potential, just think what you would do without that kind of ectasy to wake up to every morning. The same takes place at the end of the day, when your sitting there with the people you want to be with most, gazing towards the bright purples and deep reds, along with a few strokes of oranges that we call the sunset. These colors bring about a certain feeling of peace and soothing relaxation as you finally realized it's the end of the day.
Emotions are so closely connected to colors it's amazing. Colors such as red bring anger, or love, whichever is best fitting for the situation. Even when you hear music you see a certain color in your mind's eye, try it-I guarantee you'll see a different color with every new song. Jazz music tends to bring about the color of blue, while rock 'n roll brings about bright colors like red or even....orange?
I truly feel sorry for those color-blind people who cannot see what everyone is missing, it is truly a shame, because the world around us is based on color and the glory it brings to our lives.

February 4, 2007

Stars

Stars are one of the greatests things that have ever graced the sky with their prescence. They have been the inspiration for all sorts of scientific projects and discoveries, such as Newton's heliocentric theory. They have also inspired many artists, such as Van Gogh in Starry, Starry Night. Stars gives us hope, and helps us keep that hope, that kind of hope that nothing is impossible, that everything can be achieved one way or another. As we gaze at the stars, they bring about such a feeling of awe, that we could lay in the grass for hours, just trying to grasp the overwhelmingly enormous size of our universe, and what little part we play in the solar system's life. Suddenly our problems seem insignificant, the worries that we feel no longer seem to be as threatening. We just continue our routine of life, like ants in an ant hill.
Stars bring about the one question that every one wants an answer to, are we the only ones here? Or are there others out there, living lives just like us? Nobody knows, but for the record, I think there are. I mean, if you think about it, there are billions and billions of stars and planets, what are the odds that our planet is the only one with life on it? There has to be life on other planets, there's got to be something out there.
Stars also give us a chance to embellish the unknown. We give shapes to stars by forming them into constellations, giving them the images of heroes and monsters, such as Orion, or the Scorpion, to help us tell stories. These stories helps everthing slide a little smoother, and lightens our load a little as we apply our imagination to that we do not understand.

February 1, 2007

Dreams-One of my Favorite Past Times

Don't you love dreams? They are like a one way ticket to your planet-what you want to feel, hear, see, or touch, it's all up to you. As you lie on your bed at the end of the day, slowly slipping into darkness your subconscious kicks in, sending you to a better place. Some people say that your dreams are created from your feelings of that day, or sometimes you dream about something that's been bothering you lately. Did you know that if you are thinking about a problem you have right before you go to sleep, your subconscious will continue to work on that problem during your sleep? Sometimes it reveals the answer to you in your dream, or you just wake up knowing the answer the next morning. Try to think about the last dream you can remember, and now try to go back to the day before that dream and see if there's any connection between the two. I remember once immediately waking from a dream at one in the morning and rushing over to my desk to finish a complicated math problem I had given up on earlier that night.
Dreams can be such an awesome experience, showing you your imaginative potential as you enjoy the gentle ride through the night of wonder and awe. Dreams can be the inspiration for art, literature, and other creative activities. But not all dreams are warm and fuzzy. The imagination has its dark side also.
Dreams can turn to nightmares in a blink of an eye, especially if you've seen a horror movie lately. Nightmares can really turn nasty and leave you lying in bed, with your eyes wide open, scared to even move in fear that your nightmares were more than just that.
Hopefully you enjoy your dreams every night, or maybe you don't. I actually look forward to sleeping every night-wondering which super power I'll have or some secret mission I'm being sent on or maybe I'll just win the lottery. It's all up to you.