'Yellow is commonly associated with gold, sunshine, reason, optimism and pleasure, but also with envy, jealousy and betrayal'Largely considered cheerful, yellow has a troublesome history: Judas Iscariot's robes depicted as yellow apparently, traversing through its iteration as The Yellow Wallpaper (Perkins-Gilman 1892 reference to 'a slight hysterical tendency') yellow also became synonymous with fin-de-siecle misdemeanor in The Yellow Book before its particularly vile association with exclusion inherent in the wearing of a yellow star.
Gold, sunshine, reason, optimism and pleasure are infinitely more appealing sensations than envy jealousy and betrayal so it is with great effort that I choose to promulgate the necessary show of positivity to shove a load of daffodils onto my post instead of what I'm actually feeling right now!
Be cheered, it'll be a temporary outbreak of wild emotionalism. I think...
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