Karma

My favourite colour is purple, and my next favourite colour is orange. But favourite colours are complicated. I like a dark purple to wear, but a lavender when colouring or writing - and I like a very slightly darkened, yet vivacious orange that will jump out at you when used against the purple. I don’t much like pink except on rare occasions (like fluffy dresses, which I hardly if ever wear…). I like to think that green is one of my favourite colours, but every time I think of green, I think of a colour that’s brighter than a grass green but not light enough to be a spring green - a colour like generic green plastic, and I don’t like it. Then I end up thinking that green is good on grass, and that I look good in a dark, foresty green, and then I remember that chartreuse can look really nice… I have to qualify liking green for some reason. So I think I like sky blue better. A really light sky blue. A little darker than ‘almost white’. Especially when on black. I used a lot of gel markers the last couple of days - the new kind that look like markers, but dry as gel. I like watching the bright colours slowly materialize on the dark paper. I remember when gel pens were a huge fad. I always wanted some because they were cool, not because I wanted to be popular; there was no helping my social status. Thank goodness. I would be horribly different if I had worried about that back then. Now I can get all the gel pens I want and I don’t have to think about it… I got a purple one the other day. It’s metallic. When you write with it, it dries so that if you look close, the words themselves are in silver but ringed in a line of purple, like the ink somehow separated on the paper as you wrote into shiny bubble letters. I wish it didn’t show through on the back of the paper so much, but then again, the shiny ones are to be used only for special things anyway - and one usually doesn’t go front-to-back on special things. Which might even be on cardstock, because it holds up better and looks nicer. Just a thought.