Color, Color… Oh, Forget It!

“Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“Red.”

“Uh-oh! Red is already busy waving from flags and storming the streets, walking red flags everywhere! Definitely choose something else.”

“Again, Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“I choose green.”

“Nope. Green is already stuck on environmentalist placards and awareness campaigns. You choose green, but green doesn’t choose you. Again, Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“Uff… white this time.”

“Not loudly, you girl! If you say you choose white, people might call you a racist. Again...

Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“I hate this game. I choose pink.”

“That’s extinct. All young girlies used it up on their bedroom walls in 2009.”

“Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“Okay, black it is!!”

“Oh dear. Black is currently taken by air pollution and the ozone debate. Not available for you. Try again.”

“Beige. Nothing can go wrong this time.”

“Men don’t even know what color beige is. Pick something more obvious.”

“Color color, what color, which color do you choose?”

“I don’t want to play this. Last one — blue.”

“Sorry. Today is Wednesday. Blue only works on Mondays.”

“Color color, what co—”

“STOOOOPPP! I’m done. I’m not playing this anymore!”

This is what happens when there are too many options, but none seem to fit — or worse, you’re told why every choice you make isn’t quite right. What begins as a childhood game slowly turns into a reflection of life itself. Sometimes, no matter what you pick, it either doesn’t belong to you, doesn’t match the moment, or someone else has already assigned it a meaning.

Maybe that’s why we sometimes feel stuck, not because we lack choices, but because each one seems weighed down by assumptions, judgments, or expectations. The pressure to choose “right” makes even fun, innocent things feel like a test. And when every color comes with a label, where’s the room to just… be?

And maybe that’s the point. As the Bhagavad Gita reminds us:
Karmanye vadhikaraste, ma phaleshu kadachana
Ma karmaphalaheturbhurma te sangostvakarmani
“You have the right to perform your duty, but not to the fruits of your actions.”
You might choose red, or green, or beige — and still end up with blue. But maybe the universe is just doing its job. Maybe it’s all part of getting us where we’re truly meant to be, in the color that finally feels like home.