You, Me, and the Colors of Life

by Noa C. Walker

Profound events like the one your brother’s going through change people. They leave a mark. Sensitive people who have experiences that try to drag their soul down a dark hole never come back the way they were before—but they do have a chance to come back even better.”

“Because I connect colors with memories. They help me remember a wonderful moment I got to experience, and people who were part of that moment. I relive the gratitude to have experienced that moment, to have known those people. That gratitude for all those small and big gifts is the key to a happy life.”

They have to live their whole life in a fraction of the time most people get. They learn very early on things that healthy people don’t learn until old age, for example that we can’t know happiness until we’ve experienced suffering, that we don’t appreciate our healthy body until we’ve been sick, that human life is worthless unless we give it meaning.”

Was that what love looked like? Putting yourself second, supporting your partner without reservations, suffering through tough times side by side, working on yourself, celebrating everything you had in common while giving your partner the freedom to retain their idiosyncrasies?