The Greatest

Dear Delysia,

I saw this music video and it inspires me! I like the art that was put into this whole video. It has a subtle title with the hast tag: we are your children. I really enjoy the constructs of this video. I love the drawing of the tears of different colors and yet there is no color to be found in the whole video beyond the paint of color on the young girls cheeks.

Initially, I saw myself in this video as the little girl with the colored cheeks. I felt as if she is asked to be something that isn't inherently something that she wants to do. It's as if she's told to live in a construct that doesn't allow for anything that is apart of her. She is asked to live in a construct that kills the inner part of her being. What I like about it too, is that she's lived this lie for so long that she know longer cries color, she has to paint them on. It's as if she is starving to death from lack of being authentically herself. Yet, she has found others around her that are also having a hard time keeping up with the demands of the construct of their lives, that she is helping them stand up, with the phrase: I've got stamina.

It also reminds me of the idea of our society that if you don't fit in society a certain way, you must fight or die. There is no other alternative to build a place for yourself. I think that the society that I live is very ridged in what they expect. Creativity, Education, Self-expression aren't really rewarded. Our school system was built on a model from the industrial age. Our society rewards memorization and repeating of facts, but we don't reward creativity, self-expression or self-discovery very much.

As a pineapple, I feel like this is the life that I am living. A colorless world. To my eyes, it is colorless. To others that can live in this construct see the beauty of it. They are allowed to see because they have all the tools needed to make the construct work, they are inherently able to do so. I cannot.
Yet, I do love the underlying theme of this song: Don't give up.

Delysia, I'm trying so hard not to give up. I am trying to live life to the fullest. I am trying to find my happiness moment by moment. I am trying to live a slower pace life among the mundane of what I do for now. It's difficult. It's really difficult in feeling that I'm working so much more than most to stay afloat in the rat race of life. However, I relish the days when I find videos and music like this to pick me up. I feel the spirit.