I’m Wearing My Rose-Colored Glasses Darn It!

“She chose the rose colored glasses not because she was naïve, but because she knew the power of positive focus.”― Christina Sutra 

Seeing the World through Rose-Colored Glasses

According to Wikipedia, Rose-colored glasses or rose-tinted glasses may refer to:

• Optimism, the tendency to see things in a positive light

• Rosy retrospection, the tendency to view past events in a positive (often unrealistic) light

One crisp November morning deep in peak fall color season, I was driving along a country road I’ve traveled countless times.  I was awestruck by the beauty of the surrounding landscape, the warm shades of golden grasses in the fields and the toasty brown of the leaves in the trees against the pink glow of the morning sunrise.  I was filled with joy at the sight.

Then I realized I was wearing a new pair of sunglasses with rose-tinted lenses.  I took them off and found that the lenses had definitely boosted the beauty of the scene, adding a luminous, warm filter.

I put those glasses right back on and continued to bask in the joyful feeling of being surrounded by the beauty of nature.  You might object that I was fooling myself - that I was not accepting the reality of the situation.  

I would argue that I was just making a choice to see everything in the best possible light. No harm was done by throwing a warm filter over my world for the length of my drive.  I wasn’t putting castles where there were mobile homes or mountains where there were billboards.  I couldn’t hide the trash cans and broken-down jalopies littering a yard, but even the junk and the signs looked prettier in the lovely glow of my glasses.  The unsightly parts simply became part of a beautiful whole, and the end result was joy.  

Couldn’t we all use a little more of that?  The world is full of beauty and growth as well as the grotesque and decaying.  If a dose of rose-colored perspective helps me to feel more hopeful and positive in that chaotic world,  I’m going to wear them, darn it

With Rose-Colored Lenses

Without Rose-Colored Lenses

Arianne 

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