Yellow Paint
You always ask me why I did what I did, and I suppose that I could just tell you why,
but I speak to you better in flowery words and metaphors than I ever could in sharp words and cold truths, So here it goes.
Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint
because he thought it might get the
happiness
inside
him.
Many people thought he was
insane
and
idiotic
for doing so because the paint was
toxic,
never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn’t possibly have any direct correlation to one’s happiness, but he never saw that.
If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas
could possibly work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow,
or planting flowers in your lungs then you are going to do it.
It’s really no different than
falling in love or taking drugs.
There is a
much
greater
risk
of heartbreak or overdosing,
but people still do it everyday because there was always that
chance
it could make things better.
Everyone has their
yellow
paint.
That was mine.
what’s yours?