Draining Away The Colour…

I recently came across this in a book:
Now he could see through the glass into the tidy garden just beyond, and a table under a tree, with chairs around it. He had a picture of tea set out there on a summer's day, and children running through the grass, laughing. The England he and so many others had fought for. Bleak now in winter, cold and quiet. As if war, not the seasons, had drained away the colour and the reality.

This book had no pretensions to be profound or great literature, but I found this short passage very powerful.

How many times have we had our visions destroyed by the negativity of another? For many of us certainly far too often.

And yet if we look beyond the negativity of those others, we often see a void - a lack of vision and a lack of understanding that must be debilitating for them as well.

The good news is that such negativity, like the winter, will pass - and your vision can bloom again in the Spring. So next time someone tries to destroy your vision, just let it pass in the knowledge that your time will come.