Different Van Goghs; Same painting

I've met someone who has made my heart so happy. He inspired this blog.

He told me that when I went back to school I'd be having so much fun that I wouldn't even miss him or have time to. I just told him he was wrong because I didn't have enough time to put what I felt into words. Well since then I've been thinking about how to do that and this is what I came up with.

Our lives are like a piece of art, but instead of working on the painting, drawing, or sculpture on our own there are many different people who help to create it. Some people might paint a wrong color leaving us sad and doubtful whether our painting will ever be the same again, some people add something so beautiful to our artwork that it makes us so happy that we found them and that they made a difference no one else could, and then there are those special few that contribute something so rare that when we look at the work they've done we'll forever remember them and know that our painting will forever be changed.

This is what some people need to understand. Your painting might be wonderful and beautiful before they added to it and that is all very well. But now that they have added to it, it's still your painting, but something that will be changed forever.

It's like looking at Van Gogh's Starry Night over the Rhone and realizing that that's the same sky however, there's a new star. It's the sky you've been gazing at all your life but now it's different, that star will always be there and when you look up at it, it serves as a constant reminder of the beautiful person who put it there.

He put a new star in my sky.