worth a thousand words. 

By Jazmine H.

Everyone has one specific color that makes the rest seem dull. One color that makes you feel like you. The one color you can't seem to grow apart from. For me that color has always been blue. 

From a young age my family pushed onto me that pink was a girl color meaning I had to like it, in my own personal way to “rebel” against that I decided I didn't like the color pink.

I didn't. 

 It felt like everything I happened to be drawn to represented the color blue in some way. 

From my favorite albums, to the cases I chose to protect my devices, to the clothes and jewelry I wear all of it has some type of blue in it. 

My favorite song has a blue and white album cover, despite having colored my hair countless times the one color I have seemed to feel happiest in has been blue.

The older I grew the more I fell in love with the color. I loved how the color represented so many different things perfectly. 

It represents peace, freedom, new beginnings, sadness, and so much more. 

I found these feelings in many places and things all which have been the color blue. 

I found peace in the ocean and in lakes. The way the rain sounds falling on the water making  the waves jump. The way the sun reflects off of the water making it glisten. The way the cold breeze that comes from the moving water feels on a foggy quiet morning. 

The sky will always be what represents freedom. The way the clouds tend to move so gracefully, telling a story throughout the day that changes with the weather,  the way birds seem so happy while flying without a care in the world or anything to stop them. The way the different shades paint a picture as the day goes on getting prettier and prettier.  

I often find myself feeling blue. Not in a sad depressed way but for me blue happens to be  every emotion under the sun. Not just sadness. 

The darker shades tend to hold cold and dark feelings such as sadness, stress, anxiety and any other emotions people tend to try and hide or deny. 

The lighter shades are where I feel the softness and comfort lies. Those shades are often what “represent”  the feelings of peace, happiness, and freedom in one way or another. 

The color will always be what makes me feel like me. It will always be what I feel most confident, and happy in. It will always be the color that I turn to when looking for a way to describe how I feel. It will always be the color people think of when they think of me. It will always be the color worth a thousand words. 

For the warrior times this is Jazmine Heredia