Every child has friends & crayons

Crayola brand crayons were the first kids crayons ever made, invented by cousins, Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney (wife of Edwin Binney) who took the French words for chalk (craie) and oily (oleaginous) and combined them. (this information is listed at http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/crayons.htm)

Currently the company makes more than 120 crayon colors that help to stimulate adult and children's creative development. But why didn't Binney & Smith stick to just the original eight ? Because the world would be rather boring with just the original eight colors. Even grade school kids know this. They are constantly switching up colors and experimenting with mixing colors.

Our lives should be the same , we should have a core or base of everything but then we need to branch out and experience life. One major area where I have noticed that people have issues is with friends! Some really feel threatened or insecure when others form new friendships and this really boggles me. Can a magenta or mauve replace the original purple? Of course not, but it can compliment that same color. Binney and Smith were smart enough to not limit the company to only creating the original eight and I'm just as wise!

Moreover, I'm like the kid that wants the 64 box of crayons with all of the different little boxes inside. Like that kid I vow from this day forward to make sure those colors that don't "MESH WELL WITH OTHERS" stay in their own little box.

You can give a kid a crayon but you can't make him color with it.....

Hence, I've accepted the fact that you can't force others to grow and expand their minds but I won't let other kids break my crayons because they aren't interested in them!

In love and peace,
L. MZL