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How do you feel about color?
While I like many colors my favorite color is yellow. It makes me feel cheerful and energized! I love the bright sunny color and the way it makes me feel. It is never sad. It reminds me of summer and the sun. It is warm like the summer and if you can't tell already, my favorite season is summer. A few of my favorite flowers are yellow, for example, tall yellow sunflowers and the yellow daisies. I also like yellow roses. However, while I like most things that are yellow, I would never wear the color yellow. I feel like it draws too much attention. Additionally, yellow can sometimes be startling, but then that is when it energizes me. I found it really interesting, that when I looked up color psychology, that yellow is the color of the mind and intellect. It is also the color which resonates with the "left or logic side of the brain stimulating our mental faculties and creating mental agility and perception." I had never thought that a specific color could stimulate our brains to think and feel certain things.

I would have to say that my least favorite color is definitely dark brown. I do not like dark brown because it reminds me of dead and gloomy things and it is a sad and ugly color. Dark brown also reminds me of dirty and gross things such as bugs. Don't get me wrong, dirt is not a bad thing. I don't mind getting dirty at all. It is just the things that come from the dirt and the dark brown color of the dirt that I don't like. In my opinion, it is a very boring color and it makes me feel down. It is not energizing like, for example, the color yellow. I don't particularly like looking at dark brown but it seems to be very popular these days. I see a lot of people wearing it and painting and decorating their house with it. I was thinking while writing this and while I don't like dark brown, I do like lighter shades of brown. An example of this is khaki. I think that it is really relaxing and warm and I actually have my room painted in that

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