It’s during the earliest hours of the morning when the sun is still a dream away, and there’s that stillness in the way the air flies, and in the way the stars shimmer – when life seems small and the universe seems in control. It’s when you feel that sliver of light, of peace, that gifts you the strength to take on another day of chaos. To feel this magic, however, all the time, even in the most difficult times, is a skill and treasure all in one.
La vie en Rose, the life in pink, is a mindset rooted in beauty. It tells a tale that glorifies looking at life through a rose-colored lens, to see the beauty in everything… even the ugly. This is misleading and, even if you’ve been in love with and living by this concept for a while already, with the year we’ve had in 2020, it can be rather difficult to see much light or positivity in anything.
Here are a few little tips, just some things that have crossed my mind and honestly relieved me of so much stress, and that’s something a lot of people may need, I just know it.
La vie en Rose, for one, is about your own individual vie (life). Comparing yourself, your accomplishments, your timing, your personal path, or anything else of yours to anything else or anyone else is the dimming of your own pink. Slowly you’ll lose all the color you have and you’ll turn to gray, that’s when it becomes hard to see life for what it is for you, beautiful.
You also need to acknowledge that real life is not pretty all of the time, and this year it was pretty, well, sometimes. The point of having on these rose-colored glasses is to see grace in everything, even the ugly. This one is important! When everything seems to be happening at once, and when life is just hitting you with a lot of, well, life, it’s the rosy mindset that gives you the bravery to face these obstacles with knowledge, kindness, and light; typically issues resolve themselves better this way, or at least it allows you to feel better. This also, keep in mind, involves allowing yourself space, permission, and time to grieve your losses, to be upset, hurt and angry – to feel all of these very real emotions because they are what makes us human, we have to feel them, so let yourself. Here’s the cool part: after you feel the energy from those feelings turn into action, you can work on healing yourself once again – and with your life waiting to bloom into your most vibrant pink, you heal to the sound of that stillness, that peace.
The glorious truth is that no matter what, at the end of the day, the moon will rise above you, and your eyes will glow from its light. Make yourself this promise: tonight, when it does, and your eyes are glistening in velvet brown, diamond blue, or anything in between… breathe. In through the nose, out passed the lips; breathe. Through everything, we’re all just stardust, trying to find beauty. The moon knows that, and when she rises every night, know that you are not alone, and that she sees you as pure, graceful, pink.