The orange and blue colors for the cards were not chosen to honor or demean a football team or suggest that office fabric be replaced. Blue comes in every color, orange comes in every color. Each time a person is caring, respecting, optimistic, and loving with oneself or others, personally or professionally, he or she is dealing blue cards. Conversely, each time an individual is racist, sexist, ethnocentric, insulting, humiliating, uncaring, or thoughtless with oneself or others, personally or professionally, he or she is dealing orange cards. This ratio indicates the strength of orange cards and the actions needed to counteract them.
Individuals begin to lose self-esteem, optimism, and hope.
This loss is coupled with the appearance of pessimism, hostility, and terrible anger. Nobody likes me, respects me or cares about me, so I don t like, respect, or care about others either. It will be helpful to pause here and contemplate the deeper meaning of the blue and orange card metaphor. While these are worthwhile activities when used caringly and appropriately, they are insufficient to describe the awesome nature and potential power of every human action. Sticks and stones break bones, orange cards kill.