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Once there was a world so different from ours, yet in a way it was exactly the same. The people of this world looked like us, talked like us, dressed like us, went to work like us, and even fought wars like us. Just what makes this world so different you ask? That, my friend, is easily answered. Every last person was color blind. There were no brilliant blue skies, only gray ceilings with white puffs. No shimmering gems, only gray, black, and white stones. Not even their food had color, so from breakfast, lunch and, dinner they ate only gray.

Now I bet you are beginning to wonder why they are all cursed like this. Perhaps the answer is simply, that they choose not to see the colors. Maybe they truly wished to live their life with no changes, only the same things and routines day in and day out. It could even be that they misplaced the color, the full truth is; they never ready, laughed, loved, cried, or lived. The only walked from place to place with that same full and expressionless look on their faces.

Surround by the gray that consumed this world and those in it, a little girl no more than eight. Truly opened her eyes and was stick with a silent awe. The once boring world around her flowed free with color, oh how she stared in blissful contentment at the magnificent beauty her world processed. She spring forward, to chase the brilliant blue butterflies and sing with the striking red chested robins. The girl danced with delight to the crickets happy fiddle, and most of all, grinned with pure joy and merriment at the world around her. Then…something happened, one by one people who stopped to stare at the little girl slowly began to smile and see the color for themselves. As the saying goes it only takes one, then another follows that one, and soon you have everyone.

This world is not so different from our own, in reality it is the same. For some the world is gray and dull, for others it is joyous and bright.