I am attracted to the color purple.

Not the book, just the color. Sorry, Alice Walker. You may have written the book, but this one is all me (and select random contributors thanks to Google.com).

Purple. It's been a recent development but I believe it is something to be analyzed. Let us begin.

By attracted to, I do mean, I have been wearing a lot of purple. If given a choice between trying on something of any color, I have been gravitating to purple. I recently used a purple hair clip and I've been happily applying plum mascara to my eyelashes. Is it merely because purple is the hot new color of 2009? Or.. could it be something deeper? Something deep within my soul?

Which brings me to another question - is wearing an all purple body sweat suit... unattractive? No. By virtue that it is purple. Right? I hope so. This is what I've been wearing when alone lately.... now you know my secrets. I confess, I've graduated through many colors. Grey body suits, black body suits (a favi of mine), mmmm the other colors are slightly harder to make into body suits, but somehow purple has prevailed.

When I think of purple, I know it is the color of royalty, very hard to achieve by dyes originally, because of the price of the blue. Perhaps I am majestic. Then I remember for many years in the formation of my being, I associated purple with Barney, the big gay dinosaur that held children's hands and sang big gay songs and Prince. Why, Prince? This is hazy. Mmmm. A quick Google search returned a little something we all know as Purple Rain. (Thanks to Wiki, I found out that it is also his favorite color and he encourages audiences members to wear it to his concerts.)

Another quick Google search turned up many things on what the meaning of purple could be. Apparently purple can be used and perceived in language in both a positive or negative manner. Purple prose being the most purple of all terms, this refers to an exaggeration, or highly imaginative writing that could be reference to exaggerating lies. (I do enjoy exaggerations.)

A separate website offers this advice: I should put purple in my life when I wish to: "re-balance my life, remove obstacles, calm over-activity or energize from depression." Interesting, indeed. (This applies to me as well.)

Purple, purple, purple. Nothing rhymes with purple, so in this way, it is like orange. Purple and orange. I should have ended this blog about 15 words ago. Anyway, now you know my mind's deepest fixation. Say purple 15x in a row and it no longer sounds like a real word!

Through this superficial cursory research of the word, I believe that purple has proven itself to be a complicated word worth reckoning with. I challenge you to incorporate purple into your daily lives.