Casting Colour

 Colour when you think of it, is seen by each and every one of us, differently. Human eyes are different in each human body and whether we think of it or not, we do not, nor are able to, see colour the same way as everyone else. I love that thought. Colour is therefore something unique to each person. It has much more meaning to us than we might realize. It gives comfort: moods of happiness and sadness, fears or fantasy. We surround ourselves with a colour that we favour  most. For many years, I have avoided brown and green and dark shades other than my choice: black and white. I had an old boyfriend once, who came for a visit to my husband's and my house decades ago and asked me what colour I liked most. At the time, we lived on ocean front property and I answered, grey. Living seaside, it is the ocean hue one sees most. Not blue, as one would imagine. The visitor had taken a psychology course on the effects of colours chosen by humans, and I could see, he wasn't pleased with my response. I guess grey is perhaps regarded as boring to analysts, and it made it hard for him to analyse me in the way, he had hoped to.  My old friend said, come now, you can't mean that. I do, I replied and did, and it went on from there. Today, I online shopped for a couple of items from my usual franchise store, and  both pieces were brown, nice warm browns. Like chocolate. I wondered why suddenly this year, brown has become my go-to color. I ended up thinking, that for some reason, I have developed a "sweet tooth" and the highlight of my day is savouring a chocolate Wagon Wheel. These large, individually wrapped chocolate cookies, are superb! The chocolate on the double cooky is smooth and melts nicely, the springy marshmallow centre beats an Oreo any day, and the cookie part, while ignored due to the rest, is very pleasant indeed. I don't have a sugar problem as many do, and I worry not about fat because when you are as old as I  am, you worry more about being too thin. Brown, therefore, has become my closet cookie.