I was flipping through a magazine and saw a little ad for Sonia Kashuk's nail polish, and one of her latest colors is called Fatigued. At first, I thought she was making fun of us. I'm being overly sensitive, but since the entire world has made fun of us for like thirty years, it's kind of hard not to be. Then, I realized, she was referring to Army fatigues. The color of the nail polish is a sort of a pale green, like the kind used in khaki army clothing.
I've never really thought of assigning a color to our Fatigue. The hated F word. Would it be grey? It certainly wouldn't be yellow. Yellow is too happy. Red is too passionate and orange would be too energetic. Green is too healthy. Blue is healing. Hmmmmmm. Grey almost fits. Maybe because the disease is actually murky like the bottom of a swamp. On a good day, you can almost see the sunlight shining through the murky waters. And on a bad day, it's black as pitch. But you're usually stuck somewhere in between. Which makes you in a sort of grey area, doesn't it? Maybe we need grey buttons and grey ribbons and grey tshirts. This is the color of Fatigue.......it's grey.
I've never really thought of assigning a color to our Fatigue. The hated F word. Would it be grey? It certainly wouldn't be yellow. Yellow is too happy. Red is too passionate and orange would be too energetic. Green is too healthy. Blue is healing. Hmmmmmm. Grey almost fits. Maybe because the disease is actually murky like the bottom of a swamp. On a good day, you can almost see the sunlight shining through the murky waters. And on a bad day, it's black as pitch. But you're usually stuck somewhere in between. Which makes you in a sort of grey area, doesn't it? Maybe we need grey buttons and grey ribbons and grey tshirts. This is the color of Fatigue.......it's grey.