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Boxymoron β€” Crayons
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Description Life is like a box of crayons.

At birth, you're given a great big box of them to share and add color to your life.
Some colors get used more than others.

Sometimes, a crayon gets broken. A Bright color gets snapped in half and tossed in the garbage can, never to be returned. Sometimes you keep coloring. Sometimes you can't. That color was important.

Sometimes a crayon is gained, shared between two people. That color might be just perfect, and works great! Other times it's a different shade, but it will make do.

But, there is always one color left in the box.

Black.

It's normally unused until death. It's used to frame the picture. To add the final border to the coloring board of life.

Some people use it. They color onto other's pictures with it. Sometimes their own.

They use it to scribble out portions of the picture. Sometimes the portion isn't that important.

Sometimes it is.


Sometimes there are multiple blacks in the box when you open it for the day.. Sometimes there's only one, or it isn't even there.

It all depends, really.

All depends on the crayon box.
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Comments: 286

13thefreerunner [2016-02-03 21:48:44 +0000 UTC]

That was very deep and amazingΒ 

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JulissaRdgz [2012-05-07 19:39:25 +0000 UTC]

nice awesome!

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Advant-of-the-broken [2012-05-04 02:46:27 +0000 UTC]

My momma always said that life is like a box a crayons.

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WolfySM [2011-06-28 08:56:34 +0000 UTC]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
i loooooooooooooooooove it!!!
great job !

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ValorHeart [2011-06-14 13:57:02 +0000 UTC]

β€œWe could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box."

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twinone99 In reply to ValorHeart [2012-02-04 23:03:21 +0000 UTC]

OMG!!! I was going to say that it reminded me of that quote!

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ValorHeart In reply to twinone99 [2012-02-05 07:32:01 +0000 UTC]

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basicallyemily21 [2011-04-30 00:45:31 +0000 UTC]

It's a really amazing and beautiful piece <3

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Heart4Skies [2010-10-31 17:22:24 +0000 UTC]

wow amazing

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cobrastarfan123 [2010-08-31 13:46:51 +0000 UTC]

I really like this. I always use the black crayon xD

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girly456 [2010-07-28 15:47:13 +0000 UTC]

cool cool

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Madeleinchen [2010-07-20 21:32:01 +0000 UTC]

May I tell you something? This is the most beautiful thing I ever read. *smile*

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RATHS-JCv [2010-07-20 18:51:06 +0000 UTC]

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Aistaraina [2010-07-05 18:42:01 +0000 UTC]

I think what you've written is really true! Life IS like a box of crayons.
This is fantastic! ^^

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Lov3d [2010-06-23 01:41:51 +0000 UTC]

This is truely amazing.
Everytime i doubt life this always crings me round.
thankyou!!

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Lov3d [2010-06-23 01:40:03 +0000 UTC]

this is truely amazing
i keep coming back to it when im doubting life..
thanks!

+fav

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thepurplewolf [2010-05-27 03:03:46 +0000 UTC]

It's very well thought out!! Beautiful! ^_^

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MariaLalala [2010-03-20 22:43:37 +0000 UTC]

Awesome.
But, look, there's another colour on the right of the box.
White.

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Blacklemon67 [2010-03-01 02:09:02 +0000 UTC]

positively beautiful. Reminds me of the passing phrase used in waking life.

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youmeat6 [2010-02-08 22:02:25 +0000 UTC]

pretty.

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things-i-have-loved [2010-01-17 19:41:07 +0000 UTC]

what inspiration!

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lobster-popsicle [2009-12-28 23:39:54 +0000 UTC]

Weird, I always ended up using up black first, and leaving white when I was little. What use is a white crayon when you're four? Anyways, beautifuk writing, the way you've worded this is really fantastic.

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BurgundyRoseWater [2009-09-07 20:15:09 +0000 UTC]

I'm wright a This I Believe essay for english and I'm using the crayon anology too! I think that it absolutly beautiful (your poem and the anology)

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Bored-and-Searching [2009-09-05 03:04:23 +0000 UTC]

Nice, simple metaphor. DD though? I don't know. xD

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KevoDevo [2009-09-02 00:33:58 +0000 UTC]

Emotional and impressively relevant to life.

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bucketbleed [2009-08-18 18:55:43 +0000 UTC]

this ROCKS dude can i tell my friends about this! its so true

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lakerose [2009-08-07 16:18:50 +0000 UTC]

this is very interesting....i own too many crayons!

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only-dancers-fly [2009-06-26 15:50:15 +0000 UTC]

i think this is a monologue from a play... my friend did it, but they refer to unused crayon as the white crayon...
meh, i like urs better

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paintedbluerose [2009-05-27 01:40:25 +0000 UTC]

It's odd, unique, but I gotta say I love it. Very much.

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Boxymoron In reply to paintedbluerose [2009-05-27 23:43:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Copper-Princess666 [2009-04-24 00:37:34 +0000 UTC]

thats a great piece.

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PhilipAndrew [2009-02-19 06:14:09 +0000 UTC]

Deep*

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PhilipAndrew [2009-02-19 06:13:55 +0000 UTC]

That is really dee, in an artistic crayon sort of way. Great peice.

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KaibutsuKuma [2009-02-08 02:18:56 +0000 UTC]

This is true, life is like a abox of crayons. When I was about ten, I thought that my mom stopped loving me. I felt as though I wanted to use the black crayon in your prose, but i kept thinking, 'I would miss so many things in life like my sister getting married and having kids, or meeting my soul mate on a busy sidewalk.'
I'm better now, I've made friends at school and all my problems go away quickly

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bumo [2009-01-27 22:44:13 +0000 UTC]

did it help u bounce back from depression and not cry?

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Boxymoron In reply to bumo [2009-02-05 23:48:06 +0000 UTC]

Writing about it usually does. It helps in the way of 'getting things off your chest', as it were, so it can be relieving.

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PsycheII [2009-01-24 19:22:40 +0000 UTC]

I love this piece of writing. I've read it before I registered to dA and I liked it instantly.

I'm glad I found it again, I think it helps me a bit figuring out other people.

I hope you felt better after writing this.

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yinuzumaki [2009-01-18 02:52:00 +0000 UTC]

Thats realy great i love it

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udden-kiwi [2009-01-11 12:20:11 +0000 UTC]

i hope you dont mind but i couldnt helo but link one of my photographs to your words, they were just so touching, heres the [link] if you dont like it i'll get rid of it.

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LycaonLycanthrope [2008-12-22 11:35:06 +0000 UTC]

Amazing way to put it.

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ColouredRain [2008-12-21 20:13:26 +0000 UTC]

that was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I can't wait to check out you gallery, which I'm going to do right now. love, love, LOVE this.

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Boxymoron In reply to ColouredRain [2008-12-21 21:34:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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cranberrystarlet [2008-12-05 17:43:10 +0000 UTC]

amazing. i am utterly speachless.

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Nabana [2008-10-20 20:41:57 +0000 UTC]

this is great. really philosophical. congrats. but that seems quite a depression. hope you had get better. (sorry I'm not sure about my english )

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Boxymoron In reply to Nabana [2008-10-21 07:22:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. It happens, really. It comes and it goes. Just have to learn to deal with it and get it so it doesn't happen.

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Nabana In reply to Boxymoron [2008-10-21 18:56:34 +0000 UTC]

when it comes try bob marley, it helps... thouh I never had a fucked up depression. or any kind of depression. unless you're like my friend, bob king pisses him of, than you should find a really fucking heavy playlist and fuck your ears of xD

good luck, it is like money, it allways come handy

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Itti [2008-10-05 18:14:47 +0000 UTC]

Reminds me of that "people are a box of crayons" overused analogy that haunts forwards around the net. But an original take on it. I like yours. Good stuff.

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Boxymoron In reply to Itti [2008-10-06 16:33:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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frozenpandaman [2008-09-17 21:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Very true. Your words flow beautifully. Good work, and congrats on the DD!

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fierypoplartree [2008-09-14 01:40:42 +0000 UTC]

Wow. My eyes actually started... >_> Leaking. Lets leave it at that. Haha.
That's amazing. It's so easy to make it relevant to your own life... Just... wow. Definitely favouriting that. Is that a word? Hmm.

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