Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Colours

Feeling blue ... Feeling blue ... goes a popular Hindi number from the movie PKSE. For some reason, unlike the song, I don't associate the colour blue with feelings of sadness or unhappiness. I kinda like that colour. This got me thinking about my interpretation of colours. So here it is ... MY take on some of the colours and what they mean to me.

Red - First thing that comes to my mind about red is the feeling of danger associated with it. Be it at a signal or the sign hanging on an electricity pole or the card shown by the referee during a match. Red spells trouble for me. Red is also something that I would associate with the Chinese. I think that's the only country that I would associate with just one colour.

Black - Black is a colour that I would associate with power - superiority. It has the ability to override all colours and its difficult (if not impossible) for any colour to hold on to itself over black. I also associate black with disrepute or shame (moo kale Kara die). Black can be sexy too -- there's little that beats a well toned female body in a well fitted black outfit - Indian or western! ;-)

Blue - My favorite colour. Blue signifies calm to me. Apart from this, I don't think about or associate this colour with much. Just like it plain and simple, especially the darker shades.
Green - Refreshing. Green is refreshing. A lush green grassland just after the first few showers of rain is always a welcome sight! Green is a colour of acceptance. Green is also something that I would associate with prosperity and growth.

White - It signifies purity to me. The colour also has an emptiness or a hollow feeling associated with it. A noteworthy point about the colour from my perspective is its ability to tone down all other colours.

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