Happiness is yellow, like the sun, like mac & cheese, and like sunflowers. It's bright and shining, cheery and radiant. Keep it nearby at all times.
Love is orchid purple. Almost pink, but not quite. Love is like lilacs, like grape bubble gum. It's sweet, it's beautiful, it makes you smile...
For a while.
Sadness is navy blue, like the sea during a storm, like the darkened corner you're slumped in after turning out all the lights, like the umbrella you carry as you run home in the pouring rain.
Envy starts out neon yellow and fizzes into a radioactive green, like toxic waste, like a glow-in-the-dark bracelet, like the bubbling substance filling a beaker.
Envy burns your skin. It's like a toxic chemical that flows with your blood, traveling throughout your entire body. It makes you sharp, it makes you hasty, it makes your skin sizzle.
Hatred is grey, like the smoke from a smoldering fire, like grey storm clouds, like fog blocking your vision. Hatred blurs how you perceive things. Every thing they do, every word they say, etches a new burn mark in your heart, each deeper than the last.
Anger, burning anger, is fiery orange with hints of white, getting lighter as it gets worse.
Orange like fire, oranges that sting your mouth like the sharp words passing your lips, like a sign marked "Road work ahead."
Those signs tell you what lies ahead after an argument; Holes and bumps in the road, detours, unfinished problems and conversations, cliffhangers.
Anger is a very dangerous color.
Fear is shiny gold, clear as day, with a hint of black engraved into it. It's golden like gold coins, like greed, like metal.
But, it is weak metal. Metal that can me dented, twisted, and even destroyed.
Do you want to know the secret to destroying this illusion?
Confidence.
Confidence is green, but not green like envy. Confidence is green like fresh spring grass, like celery, like the leaves on a young tree. Confidence is like the little sprout, peeking through the soil, growing bigger and stronger to overcome Fear.
