Pastel Yellow People
What is
Pastel Yellow People?
Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Sofie Fyrand
Pastel Yellow People is about the width of our human experience. What makes up my story are the people I've encountered along the way. The same goes for you reading this. So how do we interact with this 'truth'?
PYP explores our humanity through the lens of relationships, mental health, religion, community and queerness.
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When I first started posting short video's, one follower commented "this resonates a lot," - that simple comment encapsulates what I dream of for this book; to resonate, inspire, and connect.
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People's stories are worth sharing. In this newsletter you'll meet people from all over the world through the conversations I've had with them, accumulating into a work-in-progress novel.
The PYP Ideology
OBSERVE
Change always starts with observation. Quietly noticing nuances of human interaction, creation, and our responses to it. Loudly noticing majestic mountain serenity, or the gathering of people in streets fighting for change. Intentionally observing our emotional connection and disconnection with the living world – and all beings – around us. Wisdom is observation - a rephrased take on Marilyn vos Savant, and to do so intentionally fuels our ability to connect, empathize, and change. To observe the world teaches us understanding of now, and creativity of how tomorrow might come about – a bit differently, a bit better.
Empathize
Empathy is a skill to be learned; and a tool to discover beauty. Empathizing is a response to explored curiosity. The willingness to expand our understanding of life beyond the tip of our own shoes. It is the foundation of all interactions, and our ability to exude it determines their quality. To meet someone, knowing they are a compilation of complex feelings, experiences, culture, and thought – as we are ourselves – builds the space between us to hold our multiplex shared humanity. The depth of it – or lack of it – is the deciding factor turning observation into action, triggering what we choose to do next.
Connect
And how invaluable it is when our next action is to connect. The willingness to lend parts of our heart to someone else, whether it be for a moment, or for many thereon. Soul mates are overrated, soul connections on the other hand? If we ourselves are willing to be generous with them, they will be returned plentiful, making the sting of connection rejections hurt a little less. To go through life assuming most people seek it too makes it all the more worthwhile giving of yourself first. Our hearts are not fragile; they are simply starved. Feed it with connection, pay for it with vulnerability. It’s the best investment you can make.
Change
Observation, empathy, and connection grows stale in the absence of willingness to change. Empathy unwilling to be challenged and grow, becomes the ceiling of our ability to connect. Change is openness to otherness, the boldness to explore, and the humility to be proven wrong. Change is constant, but our enthusiasm to accept and accelerate it has to be intentional. Don’t miss out on everything further down the road by settling into comfort with a walkable pace. There’s a Vespa right next to you – take it.