We’ve been bombarded with adverts about Black Friday since early November. This is something pretty new to our dear Malta, but copying the recent tradition started in the USA the day after Thanksgiving, when everybody goes shopping, may I suggest a different perspective of this day. Make it colorful. Instead of the negativity, the horrendous traffic jams that a day like this creates, besides the lines of people waiting at the check-out counters in stores, just try to look positive and happy. Smile more, be cheerful, be courteous to people who seem in a rush, that is 99% of those shopping today, and be kind to those who appear frustrated or angry. Try to look at colors in your life, the beauty of a rainbow, a vegetable stand, varieties of candy and ice-cream, a watercolour tray, just browsing through your dress closet. Even colored pencils can make you happy, like those in this photo of pencils created out of twigs, a photo I took on my only visit to San Francisco in 2015. You can also watch any cartoon, which are usually very colorful, to change your mood, after a day shopping, thus making it a very colorful Friday.
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