Just a little pondering....

  Mark and I headed to the pier bright and early this morning.  He wanted to fish but I was more interested in the clouds that were fast developing on the horizon.  One in particular caught my interest.  Had I not known that what I was seeing was a closely contained rain shower, I might have been duped in thinking this was a waterspout developing.  While I watched the shower move across the Bay, Mark called my attention to a beautiful rainbow forming behind me.  The bright rising sun gave brilliant splash of color to a cloud to the west.  Wow!  That was lovely.  

  That rainbow got me to pondering.  Why do we always immediately think Roy G. Biv when thinking of  colors of the spectrum?  I realize that little acronym was taught to us in elementary school but is it not false? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.  Easy enough to remember by using the acronym but what about all of the other colors in the rainbow?  What about the aquamarine that is seen between the green and blue?  Why include orange and not aquamarine?  If you think of it, there is an infinite number of colors.  Yes, it is far easier to remember seven but where those seven overlap, there are any number of shades and tints that can be listed as "colors",  Why even try to limit the colors to such a small number?  

  Perhaps it is just a quirky thing that runs through my head but I get a bit amused at folks trying to set limits of things.  Each person, each thing, each day is different.  Why try to conform anything or anyone to what you deem is correct?  Let it be.  Relax and just enjoy what is laid out before you without over-complicating things.  Let go of your inexplicable need to control what is not yours to control.  Too many folks are so busy trying to change everyone else that they lose sight of themselves. With that in mind, I sat back and reveled in the beauty set before me.  So what if there are a billion colors in a rainbow?  Does that make it any less beautiful that saying it has seven?  Nope. Accept what it is and leave it be.  Life is easier that way.  Besides, I like aquamarine!  And orange!  And purple!  Where is purple??  The rainbows of life with all their complicated colors are perfect.  Just perfect.