Select a color and personify it. What does it taste like and sound like? How does it move? What does it want and fear? What special powers does it have?

I like the taste of sweet things; they are happy flavors. I like the sound of thunder and rain; they are fearful, and yet, safe sounds. I like the color of the sky: a celebratory blue punctuated by delighted, puffy clouds. But of all my favourite things, the color green tops the list. Green is calm, graceful in movements, and well balanced.

Green is a color often associated with nature because it paints its presence in the great forests and jungles of the earth.  Green stays away from noisy urban areas and tends to reside in more rural places, quiet and isolated from the bustling excitement of city life. Green, by its very nature, sounds like whispering. It is quiet; it loves quiet. Green’s preference for the subdued and its proliferation across nature also gives it a fresh taste, like newly harvested vegetables.

The places in the world in which green is abundant are resplendent with the fruits of the earth. Trees elegantly waving their branches to the wind while plants sprout effortlessly out of the ground are all miracles of nature which conjure images of the graceful movement of greenness. This prevalence of green moves through our lives with the countenance of a nimble ballerina. To be sure, green fosters the impression that it is elegant in its movements while surrendering completely to the unintentionality of its being.

Green, unlike most colors, does not strive for wealth or fame. It, after all, is satisfied being the color of trillions of paper dollar bills circulating around the world, and is pleased with this immense wealth. Instead of wealth or fame, green desires uniqueness, an arguably pathetic trait in comparison to power and prestige. Green’s ubiquitous presence in nature and paper money makes it an easy color to overlook, unlike other bright eye-catching colors like red and purple. Although green all too often goes unnoticed, it is not invidious/jealous/envious. Green is wise and makes peace with the fact that it may never be popular enough to attract attention. Despite this, green continues striving to achieve uniqueness because of its unrelenting faith that life always changes. Although green has its desires and may even have fears like all other colors, it stands alone in its special abilities. Green is the very middle color of the rainbow, which makes it equally close to, as well as far from, both extremes: red and purple.This reveals its immunity from the natural human tendency to take sides, a trait which other colors lack. This uniqueness is green’s super power, because impartiality and perfect balance are abilities that no other color, and few humans can easily achieve.

At first glance, green may spark little to no emotions in most people who construe the color’s presence everywhere as rendering it common. In fact, the soul of green is much more complex than the casual observer may think. Green is calm in its thinking, graceful in its motion, and uniquely balanced and neutral. At the same time, green yearns to be unique because of a fear of appearing indifferent. This complexity in wants, fears, thoughts, and even powers is the reason why although green is a color, it is alive, cognizant and ever-adapting to its changing circumstances. Green is to live for. Green is to die for.