Crazy and bizarre fads continue to sweep the nation. Whenever one fad dies out, another fad begins. From Silly Bandz to the Tamagotchi or from Crocs to Beats by Dre, there will always be a product that will be a hot item for the holiday season or on your Amazon wishlist. A current fad the nation is seeing are those adult coloring books, which are advertised as therapeutic and to aid in stress relief. I was recently in Barnes & Noble, where they had a whole section dedicate to "Adult Coloring Books." All kinds of stores are beginning to carry these therapy books, not just bookstores.

I have never understood this fad. Recently at a relative's house, I tried out one of these "stress relief" coloring books. Let me tell you, it had the opposite effect on me. I felt like I was back in kindergarten trying to stay inside the lines for an arts and crafts project. The spaces are all so narrow and minuscule, that it stressed me out to try and fit an unsharpened colored pencil into the images on the page.

I decided to look through the "Adult Coloring Book" section at Barnes & Noble (which at first I thought had an alternate meaning), to see what all the hype was about. I took some off of the shelves and flipped through the pages. My opinions did not change. The idea of coloring in these minuscule lines just turned me off.

I'm not going to lie, I like the idea of an "Adult Coloring Book." While shopping with my friend in Barnes & Noble, I said to her, "I actually want to get myself an adult coloring book, just one with bigger images so it's easy to stay in the lines." She replied, "So you basically want a children's coloring book?" I guess that was what I was looking for.

Just because a coloring book is for an adult, does not necessarily mean it has to be as time-consuming and difficult as the images in these adult coloring books. But until someone comes up with one with easy-to-color-in images, I will be finding other means of therapy to assist with my stress.