Do you remember sitting in an uncomfortable shopping cart or walking impatiently beside your mom or dad at virtually any store and asking him or her to buy you a new, crisp pack of crayons with the strong, unique crayon smell, while smiling brightly at the 24-count, but making more notions towards the 64-pack, never bothering to look at the 8 or 12 count packs of crayons? Because I know I remember many days like those.

If I were to ask you if you were a crayon, what color would you be? I’m sure most of you could give me an answer, given some time to think, whether it was your favorite color or the strangest crayon name you had ever seen.

I did find some crazy crayon names on the internet that are Jazzberry Jam, Purple Mountains’ Majesty, Outer Space, Shamrock, Macaroni and Cheese, and Tickle Me Pink. But my personal favorite crayon name that I found was Fuzzy Wuzzy which was a nice brown color.

As a child, you probably used crayons as your first art tools. Maybe you used them to draw a picture of your family or your childhood house, no matter how disproportionate. Crayons expand a child’s already bountiful imagination because they could draw a dream tree house, a garden, the Wild West, space, or just nature landscapes—WITH the sun in the corner of the page.

I know that as a child, I definitely remember drawing colorful sea landscapes with squiggly green lines as seaweed and overlapping oval fish. Crayons are not only for small children. They may have stopped appearing on our school supply lists a while ago, but I bet most of you all still have them at your houses.

As children, we colored drawings of what we wanted to be when we grew up, jobs ranging from a doctor helping a child, a veterinarian caring for a dog or cat, a marine biologist swimming with dolphins to a scientist discovering a cure for a disease or one of your parents' professions.

For some of us, we drew and colored ourselves as a princess, a king, a soccer star, a bride in a beautiful gown multi-colored for our wedding day, which seemed a good idea at the time, or just something that happened the weekend before.

Many of us may have lost the fun of coloring over the years, some earlier than others. But I bet if you went home today and picked up an old pack of crayons and some paper, you would enjoy yourself for a while.

Think of crayons as people, all different colors, with fun and unique names, some with sharper edges, and some more smooth. Crayons of the same color are never the same with age and by shape. However, they all have the trademark paper grip, something in common that makes them all alike and united.

To color a beautiful picture one has to use many different colors to make it look the best it can be. The crayons work together to make the perfect drawing on a canvas, their world. I believe in crayons because crayons give us the ability to relive the past, draw the present, and dream of an amazing future.