The world hates on the most useless activities. One activity that people hate on is coloring, specifically adult coloring. I have noticed, some of the people who complain about coloring haven’t tried it. I love coloring, and i think everyone could benefit from it. Coloring helps with your focus, it can be calming, and gives you a creative outlet.

Coloring helps you focus, because it gives you a very specific activity to focus on. Adult coloring books are perfect for this because they have a lot of details that need to be colored. It helps tune out the rest of the world so you can focus just on that moment. Coloring is a meditative hobby that lets part of your brain to relax.

The repetition of the motion of the pencil on the paper and the ability to let your mind wander is extremely calming. If you are having a bad day, you can put it aside for a second to color a page of your coloring book. The only issue you need to focus on, at that time, is what colors you need to fill the page with. Once you have calmed down enough and created a masterpiece you will be able to focus on your real problems with a level and clear head.

When we get comfortable in the routine of our daily lives, we end up becoming bored. The reason we are so bored is because we have no time to go out, or just relax. Coloring is perfect for giving ourselves a creative outlet, and is a fun way to add a little color into our lives. Literally. Some days you might use a lot of greens and blues because you are feeling down. Another you might use reds, oranges, and yellows because you are happy. Then maybe you’ll use darker colors like black and red because you are angry. The possibilities are endless. No one else will color that picture the same because they don’t think how you think or feel how you feel.

Coloring is also a great way to bond with people. If you and your friends all color you could do it while hanging out. Sometimes when we are having a hard time we just want company, not necessarily conversation. Coloring is a great way to be with someone but not need to interact. It is becoming so popular that this could be a way to make new friends. When you meet someone new, you could ask if they color and if they do then, boom, instant connection.

Adult coloring is fun and anyone who tells me that coloring is only for kids should at least try coloring just once, at the age that they are, just to see if they will like it. People are always going to find a reason to be upset, but targeting something as harmless as coloring seems ridiculous. Some other fun activities people don’t like are: Pokemon Go, reading, dancing, laughing, Angry Birds, etc. Before you decide you don’t like something, you should try it first, just to see what happens.