Color

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.”

― Heraclitus

It may seem trivial—these internal monologues, these whimsical rants, and these petty frustrations we have with the world around us—but, as I’ve always argued, everything we do in this life is ultimately a trade-off.

If we decide to do something, we are equally deciding to not do something else.

In the same way, if we decide to think about something, we are equally deciding to not think about something else.

Is this what my life was meant for? To ponder trivialities, to occupy my mind with the inconsequential, to burden my soul with things that I am in no position to change? I may try to concoct an intricate excuse—that these thoughts are merely for fun, for humor, for satisfying my curiosity. But at the end of the day, these thoughts and these feelings are who I am; they are what I intend on presenting to my fellow human beings and they are what I devote my heart and soul into, regardless of how much is devoted.

If it doesn’t waste time, it wastes away the soul.