Maybe It's All In Our Heads

Maybe It's All In Our Heads

Laughter is to happiness as crying is to sadness

Yelling is to anger as smiling is to peace and serenity

Disgust, fear, anger, sadness

Happiness, and joy

All these words

We "feel," as they say

But do we?

Do we actually feel these things?

Maybe it's all in our heads

Simply colours in our brain

Maybe it's all in our heads

Maybe there's nothing that's "sane"

We've all been told

That these words are important

Important to our mental ability to be sane

But are they really?

No one ever thinks deeply about it

Maybe they're just colours?

Shades and hues swirling in our minds

Maybe it's all in our heads

Blue is to sadness as yellow is to happiness

Red is to anger as white is to peace and serenity

Green to disgust

Purple to fear, and pain

Pink to joy

and black to depression

It's common to describe them as colours

But, for some reason, no one says, "Paint yourself however you like"

or "Don't worry, emotions are just colours of our imagination."

Maybe it's all in our heads

There is one emotion, however

That maybe isn't just in our heads

Maybe it's in our hearts, too.

People often describe it as

Red .... like anger

Pink .... like joy

Yellow .... like happiness

Purple .... like fear, and pain

White .... like peace and serenity

and blue .... like sadness

All of these colours add up to one

One simple word

Love.

Love is all of these things

Smashed together like cake on a toddler's face

Love is vibrant as a rainbow

Spiraling down from our heads

All the way to our hearts

True love involves anger .... so it's red

True love causes pure joy .... so it's pink

True love provides happiness, so it's yellow

True love isn't true without a little risk, fear, and pain .... so it's purple

True love inspires a blinding peace .... so it's white

And without sadness in your life, are you really living?

Can happiness exist without sadness?

Can light exist without darkness?

No. One cannot exist without the other

So, true love has to involve sadness

It has to be all the emotions

To truly be true

Without them, how would we know if it's true?

If it's not strong enough to withstand sadness, fear, pain, and anger

Is it actually true?

So maybe it's all in our heads

Maybe none of these "emotions" mean anything at all

Maybe they're all just colours

And love is just all of them combined

Maybe all of the other emotions would be nothing without love

and maybe love would be nothing without all of the other emotions

Maybe, just maybe,

Love is in our hearts

And everything else...

Is in our heads