The Color Grey

Once upon a time, longer than I would like to admit, I was a child... Those were wonderful days, playing was #1 on the list of things to do, school was fun as there was always something new and fascinating to learn, and life was easy because everything was either white or black, and the definitions were set clearly by our parents, and reinforced by our teachers. Why don't we lie? Cuz it's wrong, mama said. Why aren't we supposed to fight with our siblings (although we did it anyway), cuz it's not nice, daddy said. We lived happy, because although we did not always do the right thing, we always knew what was wrong.

Time flew by, school was no longer fun, post-grad was a hassle, and work was a disaster. And suddenly, there are so many "opinions, preferences, life-choices" and nothing was black or white anymore.. Just millions of grey shades that even the most sophisticated plasma screen can't distinguish.. What the hell just happened here?

I guess we lost the privilege of having someone to take the decisions or do the thinking for us, and we ended up having to do that ourselves. However, there are a lot of people out there who do not feel the same way. Why? Because their "mom and dad" rule makers, became that influential talk show host, that excellent college professor with 12 digits after his/her name "Hotshot Professor, PhD, DMD, PDS, RBSS.. you get the picture ;)", or his/her gang of friends. Wait.. there's also the worst kind of mama and papa figures.. ADS! Yes, trust me, some people actually do use those, maybe for the less important decisions, but they do make choices based on those.

In a world where crazy confusing things are happening by the minute, it's getting harder and harder to understand and analyze what is going on, and spectrum of grey just enlarges, until it can no longer be contained in your "grey matter", it just outflows and runs as streaks in your hair. And in a desperate attempt to try and go black and white again, we color our hairs and go about, flaunting the look of "I know it all", with our one color hair.