Today we are painting at my house. There are three rooms that have not been painted in the time we have lived here and it is time for the ugly colors to go! Rest assured this is not a DIY blog, so stay with me.
We went on Thursday night to acquire paint samples. We came home with three. Two we really liked and one that – well, another one. The two we liked were taped to the wall in the room to be painted. We stared and stared at the samples trying to determine which should adorn the room. We agreed on and answer. Then morning came and we again looked at the samples on the wall.
THEY LOOKED COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!
Sure it was the same colors from the night before but the sun shinning, the natural light; it changed the way they looked! We still decided to go with the same color (although the second made a strong comeback in the daylight).
This experience made me think of all the times and event or an argument, or one of life’s situations seemed to dire and dreadful at bedtime. Things that keep you awake all night with worry and fear. Only to be cleared away like storm clouds with the sunrise. I’ve read articles about sleep which indicate the brain does some sorting and filing while we’re sleeping, pulling together related information and storing it for future reference. Perhaps this is why things tend to look better in the morning. While we sleep our brain has had a chance to put all our scattered data together in one place to help us look more clearly at our situation.
It is hard for me to remember when I am in the grasp of the agony that like the paint samples, things will look different in the morning. Like painting a room we get to choose the color of our lives, we can choose to feed a dark color or a sad color or we can choose happy and bright. Just remember that the dark colors of the night often look brighter in the light of day!
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