How Coloring Solved my Problems

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

Metaphorically, the intricate designs of the coloring books are everyone’s life: it could be a garden with complicated structures, a wild animal with complex details or a weird black and white masterpiece which you cannot understand but when you step back, it is still beautiful. The crayons to be used are the thoughts, actions, emotions and choices, which each one of us has the power to use to color our intricate canvasses. You will be frustrated in filling up the black-and-white spaces but it will be worth it in the end because I realized, beautiful things happened after an exhausting process of diligent coloring and nothing good will come easy in REAL LIFE either.

Creating had always been my outlet to cope with the daily struggles in life since I tend to overthink about almost everything! I think there was never a day in my life wherein I didn’t result to the arts in one way or another such as writing poetry at the margin of my notebook or at a tissue paper at a coffee shop about infinite imaginings of love stories, composing lyrics without a tune during shower or simply sketching an apple or the ice cream I ate at lunch.