If you ever thought you were feeling a little blue after a bad day, how about being blue everyday?

That’s just the way it is for Paul Karason. . .

 He wasn’t always “blue” though. . .

As Karason tells it, it all started when he began to take colloidal silver, which is essentially suspended silver in liquid form.  Silver has been known to having healing properties for a very long time, but new medicines have proven more effective.  The silver in this liquid is actually what caused Karason to turn blue.  Needless to say, its the last side-effect he expect to suffer from.

Nowadays, Paul faces a life like that of a carnival clown. . .not because he wants to, but because people treat him differently, stare, or make snide remarks or faces.  The condition, called argyria, is irreversible, at least to the current state of medicine.  Karason has managed to deal with societal rejection.  In fact, he admits that he’s used to people gawking at him, but that doesn’t mean he enjoys it.

Certainly Paul’s case is a rare one, but it really brings out the issue of whether or not people can truly accept another person regardless of skin color - in this case blue.

Regardless, the next time you are feeling “blue”, you’ll probably end up thinking twice about how you express your feelings! (By the way, it is an interesting phenomena how we use colors to express human feelings - green with jealously, red with anger/passion, yellow with fear, etc.)