Color!

This one time a few years ago, I was on an island in the keys. I was on an island with no permanent structures on it and filled with tropical trees. The reason I was there was because of a high adventure camping trip with my Boy Scout troop. Part of the high adventure was to spend five days on the island exploring it, going fishing, and reef diving

The fourth night, everyone was in their tents except for man and one of the leaders. It was very warm out and the previous nights the leader had slept outside on a table because he couldn’t stand the heat. I was lying beside a campfire falling asleep, but then I heard some thunder in the distance and it began to rain slightly. So the leader and I quickly put out the fire and went to our separate tents. I didn’t’ think much of it because the hurricane, Katrina, wasn’t supposed to hit us.

The next morning I woke up to violent winds and sounds of my tent ripping. My tent mate also woke up and we both sat on both sides of the tent to keep it from flying us away. I was surprisingly calm. I didn’t say anything or scream. I just sat there keeping the tent together. I felt calm and still unlike the violent wind and ocean outside. I could hear the waves smashing the shore and each other.

Eventually my tent mate and I had to abandon our tent and we walked down the beach a bit to a temporary latrine, which had solid walls. Walking down the beach was a task because the rain felt like needles and the wind made it feel like I could jus up and fly away with it. But still I walked along somewhat fascinated to see the violent ocean and nature’s wrath.

Although the water wasn’t calm that day, I was calm like it normally is. I guess you could call me blue for that. I’m calm most the time but like the water, I’m not in a perpetual state of calmness.

Now speaking of blue reminds me of another trait. Loyalty. I’ve always been fascinated by wolves and their loyalty to the pack. I even use that to gain trust from my friends by showing my loyalty and I use it with being a member of my Boy Scout troop. In the troop, all members get equal help and respect no matter what age or rank. With friends, there have been times when some of my friends are against and mad at another friend of mine for some reason. I’ll usually just stay the neutral middleman in those situations.

For example, my friend AJ, had been getting on my other friend’s Scott’s nerves. Scott eventually got other people mad at him but I just didn’t say or do anything because I knew they’d get over it eventually. I remained loyal to both AJ and Scott and now the two of them are like best friends with each other. I guess you could say my loyalty kept the “pack” together.

Since one might refer to the color blue as calm and loyal, I could call myself blue. Although blue can be depressing and I sometimes do get depressed, but there is plenty of positive to overrun the negative. Therefore the color that I would choose to represent myself would be blue.