A White Canvas — What Will YOU create?

“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

I give you a white canvas. What do you see? How do you feel?

Someone asked me once, “What do you feel when you walk into an all-white room?” I blurted out, “Opportunity, possibility, a chance to start over, make a change, create, let go, splatter the colors of my soul all over the walls, not knowing the outcome of what will reveal itself!”

I have always been a very optimistic being. At a young age, I knew the world was my oyster, and whatever I could imagine was possible. I wiggled a wand over my head, and voila — oh, how beautiful and free my mind was!

I still believe — and know — that anything is possible; however, as I desire to create, build, carve out my dream in this crazy world, a universe filled with negativity seems to shadow me wherever I go. I do my part in society. I work hard and pay taxes. I stay healthy and exercise.

I read and learn something new everyday. I even know my neighbor’s name. Yet, life seems to create a wall in front of me. A wall between me and my dream, and I slowly forget a magic wand ever existed.

That white room ends up turning into feelings of anxiety, a mental hospital, fear. I allow these feelings to take over my existence and I begin to fall into a place of no color. “Go deeper,” I tell myself, “you are just scratching the surface.”

“Life begins where fear ends.” ~ Osho

Every day you wake up with a white sheet over your eyes. Your ego, your mind, has not so much entered into your morning. “Stay in your unconscious for a bit longer,” you tell yourself, as you lay cozied up in your all-white cloud of a bed.

You feel the sun opening your eyelids, canvassing the whiteness with charm. Wake up to your day as if you are a white canvas. Feel the excitement of purity, of the unknown, as you splatter the colors of your soul in every moment of the day.

If it’s a certain day of the week, you know how the day will be. Most likely, it will be like that day in every other week you have had for many months, possibly even years. Look at this day as you look at a white canvas. See it as your moment to express yourself. Don’t hide behind a wall or the unknown.

We all want to see what you have been hiding.