Kaara - Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:04:44 PM
Painted in Grey
She is an artist at heart, and she sees her life as one big canvas of an unfinished portrait. To her, the life she is living is painted in shades of grey; from an almost jet black hue, to the light, whitish grey of the softest pigeon’s feathers. At times, there are splotches of bright colours in the middle of a sea of grey, signifying interesting (though not necessarily good) events in an otherwise dull life. But those vivid tints are rare occurrences, and she despairs every time she looks back at the unreachable past. Some say that it is better to know joy for a few seconds than none at all, but to her, longing over something wonderful that she had tasted only too briefly is a grief far beyond spoken words. But still, she continues painting, because she can see that the canvas stretches farther than what she can perceive. The portrait needs to be finished. She continues mixing black and white on the palate she holds, and paints her life in bold brush strokes. Shades of grey soon replace the barren whiteness of the canvas, and she sometimes forgets the existence of any other colours. Because grey is the only colour that she remembers.
- "Grey life", meaning mere existence without much sense or goal.
- A "grey person" is someone who goes unnoticed, a wallflower.
