The spectrum of being.

I'm not sure what it is people used to say about a person's true colours. Was it on a negative or positive note, I can't remember. All I can say is that this metaphorical sense is what runs in on our heads but we don't notice it. Things like, say a detective or psychopath story, there are nooks and crannies like an extraordinary ability of observation and you wonder how they can do it. Everyone can do it, it's just a matter of what you want and need to see. So generally speaking you can observe a room and see a tiny pin at the side of your eyes that looks out of place, but you just don't naturally, register it. I offer teaching techniques, but that's not what this is about.

I was struck with the idea of such human behaviour and did not plan to write it before a friend of mine told me to. It really didn't occur to me, because to be honest the reasons of curiosity was personal... In a way.

I was thinking over about a recent gathering I had with my friends, despite having a great time, it wasn't that that I was thinking or dwelling on about. it was in fact that aura of presence and their want to do things. Aura of presence isn't in the sense of a magical blue and orange glow, more of what they subconsciously presented themselves in at the day.

It is more of a literal perspective where I actually asked them what their favourite colour(s) is(are), it's not of that particular occasion, but the many times I have seen them from memory. I guessed majority of them off easily, and others, I thought I was wrong, and thought back I wasn't looking at the right subjects just yet. Let's just say, if I present them with a colour that's not their said favourite, they will hesitantly accept. Because, as much as they tell themselves it's not their colour, they know it is. I'm not one to judge I know, but it's who we are.

To think that long was just an explanation of this all. You wouldn't see a person in a mall with a red shirt and assume red is their colour, because chances are, it's not. (I lied, it probably is, above 60-40 chance).

Here's how I see it, you are what you eat right? You are also what you wear, show and tell.

I don't see this getting anywhere exact, so I'm going to try to write a structured one now. How does the literal spectrum compare to a person's true colour? If I can say bluntly, your preferred colour differs daily or weekly. You're in a mood to wear red today so you can wear the white dress tomorrow. On that differing basis, then the colour preference changes with a person's mood, situation, feeling and that particular other. Maybe weather factor too, but that's for psychologists to research.

On a temporary basis then, people differs right, adapts easily. On a long-shot perspective though it's different. It's like a long-term stock-marketer, he'd check his stocks every 2 years, while a daily stock-marketer checks his every hour. That's one, complicated too, way to look at it. Now what we're dealing with are the colours used, like a stock-marketer deal with the company stocks they follow. The richer, or say the ones who has the least risk are the ones who's got several companies to hold. Multiple foundations. A person with pretty colours have differing selves that make it easy for them to adapt to new environment and socialise. It's not always true. I cannot contradict nor side with this 'not always true' point, but that's what it is.

What I can say is that, whatever colour a person represent or favourite, I can assure you it's not their true self, sometimes it's just what they want to be. Bluntly I am into grey, blue and pink. They oppose one another, yet blue and pink is a match in other ways. Okay, that's what I see, you geniuses probably think not.  Point is that your colour isn't you. Many of the answers were blue, when I mean many, I mean many. Well one answered that their favourite colour was blue, but unconsciously they actually like grey. I know. That guy with the white? Yeah, his is red. Also that guy in black. His is black. Some unintentionally represent themselves as... Themselves. To be totally honest? I am clueless. Scientists study insects, water, space, but not ourselves. Our brains and organs yes, but not what makes us, us. Religion tells us and builds us, science explains to us, but we need that path to self-understanding and know who we really are. Different beings have different ways. Why are grasshoppers green and tigers black on orange?  Grasshoppers need camouflage to hide themselves, and Tigers can stand out all they want because they aren't afraid. Real men wear pink. We've all heard it right, I think that the basis as such phrase isn't that men should wear pink, despite pink being a men's colour back in Victorian Era. It's more like, the individuals that aren't afraid to be mocked about who they are, and what they do are ones who will survive this tough world. Or back to the grasshopper, ones who adapt themselves flexibly won't need to worry about major changes because they are used to blend in.


As a baby you are born with a blank mind. As you grow, the spectrum fills in. Some colours has more tendency than others. not colours literally, but barriers of being.

A drop of paint on canvas

I will start this, like I usually start my writings, with a question. Have you ever ask yourself how can a person be creative? You are probably THE creative friend, therefore wonder why people ask you the question. You also probably ask how can professional artists be creative? If you aren't the creative kind, like me, no matter... This isn't about any kind in particular, but an advice to how can someone be creative. How can someone be able to come up with ideas in an instant? Sometimes abnormal and out of the box ideas, but very, very logical. This isn't only about paintings, sketching, fiction writing... But the whole idea of, well, idealism. Creativity. I would like other views where people can be creative at the end of this post; opinions welcome anywhere.

How, then, can someone be creative? Is it talent? Is it luck? Did he just come up with the idea without thinking? Was she thinking about it at the time? The answer to all that is; Maybe. We'll never know unless one admits. Artists are always creative though, right? Here I refer artists to idealists. Creators.

Honestly, and I'm sure everyone cannot deny it, I think everyone IS creative. At any given time, given place. How, you may ask. One universal reason is that, you cannot be oblivious to the world. If I'm not mistake, Albert Einstein once said "Knowledge is Power". It's true, the more you know the more you can use information to extrapolate, manipulate, create, destroy, imagine, hope the happenings in this world. In a given situation where you have to be creative you will use your knowledge, various informations extracted int he past, to create something new. Say put something you read when you were in elementary school with something you watched just yesterday. Both information can win you over. Give a case study here; A kid read about cranes and pulleys when he was a kid. Now in his job he's told to carry a big load up a few steps. Yesterday he just watched a DIY show. He used his knowledge on cranes and pulleys' physics and the DIY tools to create a mini pulley for that particular job. That's being creative.

That is, more than less, true. There is yet one thing, maybe not the only one-other-thing but a big thing. One thing that affects our creativity.
A baby cannot be creative because he has not understood himself or the world. Kids between 3 to 7 years old are sometimes VERY creative it's illogical. That's because he has mastered the power of knowledge and understanding. New knowledge of the world, and the understanding of his own abilities. That is the other thing to being creative; To know and understand oneself in a new situation. the fact that one knows oneself well enough, very well actually, to be able to express. I can be very dull when coming to creating ideas that I never, ever say what my brain is storming in such situations. Now we know where I go wrong. You can laugh! HAHAHAHAH. Okay keep this writing serious...

When you think about it, your creativity can equalise what the 3-7 years-old kid imagined. The road to understanding yourself fully at this stage is hard. We grow, we experience, and we know more. We tend to shift ourselves... or being extreme, we change ourselves. Changing, growing, and experiencing ourselves to fit in our universal situation. I cannot say how exactly to be able to understand ourselves, you just do... After a long journey. In anyway, as our creativity range from dul lthings to very illogical things, equalising that of a mere kid, we barely blurt out our ideas. Here's where the fun comes in, I can tell even at an age of 25 and above, people will still have crazy ideas, but what stops them? Maturity. This is what also stops us from drawing elephants with wings. Ships that sail upside down. Cars that are driven by dogs.

here you have it, the key to creativity is knowing yourself and the world. By knowing the world you are fed various ideas from the dullest to the funnest. From the most corrupted of ideas to the most innovative. Also by knowing yourself you are able to express what is needed to be said and which kind of information is used for the situation.  Maybe that corrupted information you heard will create the most innovative inventions that saves the world. Mixed with the right innovative, fun, easy ingredients.

Dreamseller by Augusto Cury

Just a note, this post has nothing to do with the book Dreamseller-Augusto Cury, I just thought the title is appropriate, but hate not referencing to the author.


In a way, I grew up with a set of stubborn thoughts. Thoughts that I thought wouldn't be creative enough to differ. Okay I'm not saying I'm creative now, I doubt it, but I have managed to differ from my original set of thoughts through the various experience every human takes on in life. I grew up thinking that dreamers are high school drop-outs, people with no jobs, the homeless, the helpless, the druggies, and the hippies... Failures. Maybe not all of you think the same prior to 'growing-up', but in my mother tongue, in a way, the word translate into something like a 'hopeless hopeful' the 'hopeless' being an object or person and 'hopeful' being a feeling. I also grew up with a different set of thoughts that changes everything, that changes... the way I think. Dreamers to me are noe the hopeful, the intelligent, the inventors and the ones who will change the world. I would say 'one day will change the world', but in fact no, they already are changing the world. I quote from my friends, on their opinions of dreamers:

• Opinion 1: really creative and maybe delusional.
• Opinion 2: someone who has an unrealistic but great vision of what will come in the future. Will try really hard to make it come true.
• Opinion 3: someone who believes in the impossible and waits for the 'expect the unexpected' moments.

It's clear that what they think of dreamers, is the latter set of thoughts that I have thought of them. Although the first opinion has that opposing view of dreamers being delusional, or else, mentally challenged. I have to admit it's true. With all the historical geniuses, or high-achievers, not one I think, not one has perfect health. Albert Einstein had dyslexia, Graeme Obree had depression and attempted suicide. They wanted to either see the world in a better place or want to achieve over someone else. Einstein found or created the theory of relativity among other things, while Graeme Obree beat the cycling world record in his time more than three times. These are dreamers, stopping at nothing to reach the top of the world. Dreamers aren't people who just sit on their window sill and dream of a perfect world, but rather sitting at a lab or a bike and making it happen. Dreamers aren't the people who make a perfect world, but have a specific thought and work with other differing dreamers to change the world. An inventor will want to work with a designer. A psychologist will want to work with teachers. now go figure why...
Can a perfectionist change? Yes they can, but that's not what I mean. What I mean is that people who have such a tidy mindset and lifestyle will tend to do what they think is perfect and will act towards their thoughts. No dreamers are perfectionists, their thoughts race from the furthest tip of our solar system to the deepest core of the Sun. They have a wide range of thoughts, although I have said that they have a specific thought, it is because of that wide range of idealism that they find flaw in one thing (at times several things too) and move towards that specific thing. Before moving to the next flaw.
Think of the stars (these thoughts are now taken from a friend of mine) you will think of how vast the universe is and that is there a definite end to it? Or is it Infinite? There's no saying. That's how wide a dreamer's idealism are. Even if the universe is finite, how much ideas can you fit in it? you're barely a pixel compared to the Sun, and the Sun is barely a quarter of a pixel of the universe.

 This is not a challenge, but a request. A request for all of us to walk hand-in-hand to be dreamers. 

Dreamers who will change the world. 

Dreamers who will create ideas and make them happen effectively for the greater good. 

The greater good...