People as Colour Palettes

Originally written: Nov 7th 2023

Embracing my queerness over the last 8 years has been a profound way to rebuild how I see and experience the world, especially people. We are endlessly complicated, breathtakingly colorful, overflowing with possibility, and there's room for all of us.

Describing the poetry of a person with words seems a crude tool, yet we try. I love how we're ever adding new words to try and more fully express how we exist - it's powerful and it's fun and it's ART. 

Ultimately, when words can't contain us, we can only be experienced. Each person is like their own unique color palette that shifts as they move through time. 

Knowing someone in this way feels like an adventure and a privilege. Seeing a stranger in this way feels freeing. Understanding myself in this way is peace. 

Take a minute to look at someone you love as a set of moving colors rather than a list of traits or identities. It's fucking magic. Then do it to a stranger, someone you're not too fond of, someone you don't understand. Do it to yourself. Let the boxes you placed them in fall away. Is this not undeniably expansive?

My love for friends and strangers has deepened in a way I didn't know possible. My heart has been able to expand, freely, far outside the ideas my younger mind inherited from the dominant western culture. What an absolute dream to look out with these new eyes, and to look in with them too. Embracing my own humanity through yours, I see you -  epic color shifting being.