My Journal #2

All the Colors of the Rainbow....

Prompt: What five (5) colors best represent your personality?

Over the years my color pallet has changed. Growing up, my mother made me wear navy brown, black and any form of a dark "slimming" color. Even after I married, I didn't wear bright colors except as an accessory.

Life has changed. In 1995 I got my stomach stapled and lost about 130 pounds. My color preference changed. As my weight went down my confidence changed. I wore RED, Bright colors like PINK and Bright green.
Then I hit 50 and I went Purple. As a member of the Red Hat Society I wore Purple and Red with pride. I began to fill out my closet with pastels and bold colors. 
Now that I'm over 60, I've gradually went back to the Blacks as my basic and filled out the cami's with bright colors and scarves that draw people's eyes to mine.  I've gained back some (more than I would like to admit) of my weight. What I lacked in confidence because of my weight in those early years, I've kept the confidence now. I'm not afraid to wearYellow mixed with Light Green or to pair a Bright Green with a Royal or darker Blue
Confidence is what you feel about yourself. I still have confidence issues, but I face them with actual ability. Can I do it? What if I fail? What if they laugh?  At my age I say SO WHAT? I don't fear rejection like I did as a younger person.

WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple. By Jenny Joseph

This is my manta, and I'll wave all the colors I want. PURPLE, RED, BLUE, YELLOW Are my basics and fill in with my other all time favorites Periwinkle and Thistle.