Just ran into Rukia’s blog and she posted quite a whammy of a melon-scratcher (translation: a heavy and philosophical question). She asked her readers “How would you describe color to a person?”. Whoa, a question like that requires a lot of DEEP thinking. Sight is one of, if not the most abused sense. I mean, we take our sight for granted. We think that our eyes are immortal and immune to pain and suffering. We scoff at and shrug off warnings of our parents when we watch too much TV or spend a lot of time in front of the computer. We sneer when our parents tell us not to get our eyes wet after watching tv. We dismiss it as an old-wife’s tale. Oh no no no. Cherish your eyes kiddies. Rukia said that she would most probably describe it by linking it to another sense. Makes sense, no doubt. For me, I’d rather use emotion to describe color:

RED the feeling you get when you’re angry… the boiling magma rising inside your body. Red could also be the feeling of passion, the feeling of love that share for another - your parents, a significant other, your friends.. heck, even your dog.

BLUE tranquility perhaps? peace, harmony and all that goody-goody emotion. the feeling you get when the wind gently passes, cooling your face. Blue can also be related to admiration or even loneliness.

GREEN the feeling of crunching grass under your feet, the smell of dew in the morning. yeah, something like that. Green can also be related to envy. Well, if you’re a blind person and envious of a person who can see, then it’s safe to say you’re GREEN with envy.

Yellow sunshine! heat or….. cowardice.

Black black can signify empitness or finality, gloom or desolation. However, black can also mean rebirth, change or reform.

White this color can also define cold emptiness, like a barren tundra. White can also mean extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme heat. White is also related to purity and innocence.

Well, there you have it, a myriad of emotions related to colors. Emotions that any person feels no matter how lacking that person is.

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