Opinion
The Rainbow of Life
By Dr jalarth Uche Opara
Beware of the rainbow of life.
Its colours may appear beautiful, attractive, and captivating, from a distance, but what those colours truly carry remains a mystery many may never fully understand.
No colour, except the primary colours yellow, red, and blue stands completely alone.
Every other colour is born from a combination, a mixture, a coming together of different shades and influences.
Grey, pink, brown, and countless other shades are products of blending; they are the results of different colours meeting to create something new.
Such is life.
From a distance, life often glows. It dazzles like a beautiful rainbow after a storm.
People see the brightness, the success, the achievements, and the outward beauty, but the colours they admire may hide stories they cannot see.No human being carries only one colour.
Nobody is purely one shade. We are all mixtures an accumulation of experiences, struggles, victories, failures, pains, lessons, and encounters. We are shaped by the people we meet, the battles we fight, and the seasons we survive.
The colours of who we become are not created in isolation; they are formed through the combinations life places upon us.
Beware, therefore, of the rainbow of life. Be careful about what you admire blindly.
Be thoughtful about what you desire and cautious about what you envy. Every dazzling colour has a history. Every beautiful shade has a process behind it.
The external brilliance may attract the eyes, but only the deeper story reveals the true composition of the colour.
Jarlath Opara
jarlathuche@gmail.com