COLORS!

Ask a blind person, “What the most beautiful thing in the world is?” He would say ‘the blackness that makes everything one’. Ask a soldier, “What the worst thing in the world is?” He would say ‘the redness of bloodshed.’ Ask the mourners, “What is the most peaceful thing on earth?” They would say, ‘the whiteness that calms the soul’. Ask the saints, “What describes the all mighty?” They would say ‘the orange hue of spirituality”.

Colors, unknowingly, somewhere are the greatest blessing to mankind. Ranging from the white soother to the richness of black, we’re surrounded with every color that can be drawn out of the rainbow. They talk to us, communicate, they’re a means of emotional and sentimental sensing and at the same time are the symbols of vitality, springing life! Colors, they’re happiness and sorrow, they’re pain and relief, they’re smiles and tears, they’re calmness and motion.

Imagining a world without the spectrum is not a hard thing, but feeling the feeling of living in such a world is the greatest task. It makes us insane. The feel of colors around us, our response to their feel, is what living with an insight for beauty is all about.

Each color has a mood. Where red can be strong and bold, talking of danger, and yet demarcating auspiciousness, blue can calm the mind and assure one of no danger. I once met a person who said that she calms down the moment you put up the color blue in front of her. After all, hues have their magic. Green and orange talk about life, and gray and white simply advocate death.  Colors, colors, colors! They may lift your mood or make you the most depressed person ever!

While purple takes you to heaven, and makes you feel all spiritual, yellow reminds you of the brightness and strain life can offer. Each color, so well blended with another one, yet so distinct from it. Holding a board, screaming its identity, its value, its emotion, lays each color in its allocated spots by nature. The sea blending green and blue, the mountains gleaming all white and green; the valleys shooting out greenery and the skies with the clouds shining silvery white!  And flowers just capturing it all and presenting the beauty to us!

Lucky is a word, just so timid to describe the blessing of the wide ranging colors drawn out from three primary ones. Our earth representing it all, ever so beautifully, the blends, the hues, the taste and the essence of nature!