Do colours have a language of their own? Yes, apparently! Yellow- its golden, ochre-ish shades Aai liked quite a bit - is supposed to be a colour that signifies enthusiasm, positivity and optimism, for instance. Well, actually, yellow is not even the base colour. It is a mix of red and green.
Which are the primary colours then? They are three: red, green and blue. Is not it most interesting that these are the most natural colours of the most primal things in nature? Red is the colour of the dawn, of the morn, of the sunrise and the sunset, of all the most natural phenomena in the universe. It is the colour of the fire that once upon a time, eons ago, helped mankind overcome the fear of the dark.
Once the primal instinct of survival was thus taken care of, more complex feels, emotions and intellectual possibilities could emerge, making our ancestors better primates, and truly human. No wonder, red is the colour of all new beginnings, of the very blood coursing in our veins, giving us the live-ly feel. No wonder, it is the colour of love, too.
Green, similarly is the colour of the entire verdant scenario around us, of the lovely forests, of the mysterious woods, dark and deep, and of the crops serving us, human beings, and many amongst our animal friends our basic nourishment.
Blue is the colour of the sky that is our companion wherever we may roam. It is the colour of the infinity, rather like the ocean that seems to stretch the very concept of the horizon . As blue thus surrounds us, up, above and around us, it has a very protective, supportive and yet deeply intense, intellectual, spiritual and emotional feel.
Well, in a way, is not it us, human beings, who give such symbolic meanings to neutral colours? For example, in Marathi weddings, the bride wears green bangles and a yellow saree as a symbol of a new beginning while, in the West, the bridal dress is white.
While the all ending death is symbolised by black, actually the absence of any colour, in our part of the world, in the West, it is white, like the all engulfing snow, symbolising the end.
Well, whatever symbolic meanings we may thus assign them, one thing is for sure. Indeed the colours do speak, a language close to our primal feels, a language most normal and natural.
Pratima@ Colours add dreams to dreary existence, right?
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