I love rainbows. I love the diversity of all the different expressions of red to orange to purple to pink to blue to green to yellow. I love the burst of different colors; it’s the differences that make the beauty of the rainbow.
Never do I ask a rainbow what colors they choose to express and spread around the world. That’s none of my business. It’s the rainbow’s business, not to be questioned by someone who has no understanding of what makes a rainbow or how or why rainbows were created. After all, rainbows never ask me why I am who I am or why I am the way I am. They’re too busy bringing color and love to the world.
Rainbows don’t understand why some people don’t like them. Why do some people want all rainbows to be the same? Or why do they accuse rainbows of making children be full of rainbow’s colors? Why do they want rainbows to hide behind dark clouds?
I don’t understand any of that. Why would anyone want only darkness in their life when they can have the beauty of variety, the excitement of multiple ways of expression, the celebration of differences?
I guess some people are so unhappy they feel the need to criticize rainbows for being happy. I guess some people are so insecure they feel the need to try to stop rainbows from shining in all their glorious ways. I guess some people are so full of fear they believe they will feel more secure if they can stop everyone from seeing the glory of rainbows. It’s that old fear that: I have to convince you to believe what I believe because if you believe what I believe then I must be right.
What a shame. How can anyone not love rainbows? It’s the very explosion of the different colors that make them so beautiful and so needed in our world of too much sameness. It’s in the sameness that we stop thinking for ourselves; it’s in the beauty of accepting and loving the multitude of the differences that we truly see the beauty of life.
I’m not a man, but I love men. I’m not young, but I love young people. I’m not you, but I love you. I’m not this or that or a lot of things, but I still love all of the this and thats. And I love rainbows. So—
Shine on rainbows. Shine on.