Painting a Picture

I've never painted a picture.
I hope to someday.
Isn't that a sad phrase?
"I hope to someday"?
Why not today?
It's hypocritical of me to say a phrase and then disagree with that phrase on the next line,
isn't it?
Practice what you preach?
Do what I say not what I do?
Do what I say.
Paint a picture.
Pick up that brush.
No.
Don't pick up that brush.
Get messy.
Sink your hand into the paint.
...
What color of paint did you imagine..?
Let that color ooze over your fingers.
It's not paint anymore to you, it's color.
With that color, you have the power to create.
I hate it when people say "make something the world has never seen before".
What crap.
Do you remember everything you've seen?
So don't be afraid to create something the world has seen before.
Just refresh the world.
Create something the world has seen before, but forgot.
Make it you.
Put a little piece of yourself out there.
Rip it from your chest,
and expose that trapped part of you to the world.
Give it an umbrella.
Maybe a coat, and some cute warm mittens.
Then, let it go into the paint.
Don't be afraid to let someone else take that helpless shivering part of you and give it shelter in their hearts.
Sometimes that piece of you will inspire someone else to shed a part of them into the paint.
Then the paint has just one more color for someone else to create with.
That color you used to release a part of you, belongs to you.
Nobody else can see it, unless you show it.
But don't be selfish.
The world needs more color.