Fading Heart

I've been wearing a red, plastic heart ring on my left hand for... at least two years now. A daily reminder to love myself, and those around me.

But the other day I noticed something.

My heart, it's fading. I guess exposure to the elements will do that (and perhaps if we had more sunshine in Europe over winter and spring this would've happened sooner).

It's doing this on-trend ombre thing.

Got me thinking about colour perception though, when a dorm mate commented that my ring looked more pink than red. I wear so much red (even more so when travelling, perhaps, so that everything in my pack matches). What if my red, the colour of love, doesn't appear as intense to others? What if it appears as something else entirely.... as orange?!