White as the
color of innocence, white as the canvas you have in front of you each time you start
working on a painting or other art form.
just like
every other artist you work on your art in stages.
You begin and
all you have in front of you is this white, empty canvas, or a white paper if
you are a writer in my case.
There it is,
in front of you, and a few hours later, or a few days later, or maybe even
years later you have the finished result. Many people think that art is born
when the artist conceives an idea and he manages to put it down successfully and
present it to the world.
This is not
the whole truth, the artist does not put down simply ideas, what he does is
bringing out a feeling, for art is always about feelings, feelings we are not
able to express in other ways.
Something
that hurt you in the past, something that might still hurt you, something you
experienced and has moved your world inside out, it might be sadness, passion,
desire, or your hidden hopes and dreams.
This is art,
bringing out a piece of one’s soul primarily to release his own soul and then
to share it with someone else.
Just like
painting our own life begins with an empty white canvas. The only difference is
that though we are all born white and innocent as this empty canvas, there is a
period of our lives that other people draw or paint on us.
These are the
first critical years of our childhood, and if we have a happy childhood we have
a happy start off with lovely colors on our canvases, beautiful flowers and
pink butterflies, a yellow bright sun in the corner of the page, a bright blue
sky and white seagulls. In a few words if you have a happy colorful canvas to
start with, then it’s easier to have a healthy adulthood with happy colors to
continue.
But really,
how many people out there have had happy childhoods? I’ m not really sure, but
I’m sure that there are people who have not had such colorful childhoods, neither
rainbows, blue skies and butterflies!
So did you
start with a black canvas? blue? grey? and what are the odds of getting
brighter colors on your life’s canvas at your adulthood? Do you have a chance
or are you stuck with black, blue and grey for the rest of your life?
There will
come one day in your life that you will have to make a decision. The options are always there and you do have
a choice! You always have a choice, but you are the one who has to decide first
if you want to continue letting others coloring your life’ s painting or if you are going to do it
yourself.
And then, the day you decide it is you who is
in charge, it is your own life, it is your own responsibility, no one else’s,
you are the one holding that pen and drawing every line, you are the one making a small and big decision
every day, how to live your life, where to live, with whom, then, when you
decide to take life in your hands, it doesn’t matter what you decide to be, a
white demon, a black angel, just as long as you hold the paintbrush every step
of the way.
Holding the
pen or the paintbrush gives you the freedom and the responsibility that comes
with it, at any given stage of your life to take a few steps back, take a look
at your life’s canvas, and ask yourself.
Am I happy
with what I have designed so far?
Do I like
this picture? Do I want to make a small or big change? So, if you are feeling
sad, unhappy, stressed, if you don’t like the picture, you know, that you have
the right and the power to change it, delete parts of it and recreate new ones,
correct mistakes and start again, on a new canvas, with new colors, better
colors, brighter colors, and this is the true beauty of being alive and enjoy
the art of Living.
