Thursday, March 20, 2008

Contradicting-Colors!!

Well since Holi - The festival of colors is coming up, I thought it would be appropriate for me to dedicate a post to, Colors!!

We do underestimate the value of color, you won't believe it, but color has a lot to do with how you feel , its something which gets to our sub-conscious mind and… lets say, sets the “mood”. :)

As I was thinking of how to put color into words, and I got this strange idea : Most of us would associate meanings to colors, but just look at how contradicting some of them could be!!

Red - It signifies love (red balloons, red hearts.. awwwww) on one hand and on the other hand it is a way to signify things like anger and danger!!

Yellow - Remember the rhyme "yellow yellow dirty fellow, sitting on a buffalo" and on the other hand the same color is used to refer to happy things !(the bright yellow sunflowers and the ever lovely yellow smiley :))

Pink - Its a girl's color but the men who dare to wear pink are they real men!!(Don't ask me where I got that from!! :P)

Green - On one hand its the color of money, prosperity (remember the greeny-greeny dollar bills) and at the same time green is also the color jealousy.

Grey - Well they say grey is a dull day's color but interestingly grey is also my fav tee's color(and I for one am not dumb!! [am I??])

Black - Its the color of Confidence but also the color which come depict a person to be really lonely and mentally imbalanced.

Blue - The color of the sea, its like polymorphism[refer JAVA dictionary for meaning], it can be calm when it wants to be and as destructing as a hurricane.

Orange – Its’ said to be a color of happiness but the same time a color which demands attention which in-turn reflects at a persons low self-esteem.

There was only one color where I din’t find a contradicting meaning attached, and the color was : *ta-ra-ra-tut-tara*

White - The color of peace, healing, comfort, truth, purity, idealism, reverence, simplicity, cleanliness, humility, precision and innocence.
Now that’s one powerful color!!
(btw, if u find some contradictions for white, other than its relation to death in the Indian culture(which I apparently din’t want to mention) then you could please tell me )

Well think about it and if you do come up with some more contradcting-colors, do let me know! :)

10 comments:

Santiago said...

"Red - It signifies love"
who said so?? i never heard of it :)
and
"Orange – Its’ said to be a color of happiness "
thanks for expanding my awareness :)

V said...

it was fun to read your colorful post that described both sides of the colors, very informative, just had a few doubts on blue and red,
btw too much of white is blinding :). keep posting!

Karishma said...

yep it is, but i still like white! :D

Vicky said...

bloddy she speaks 2 much grab wa eva color u find n smear it on her!!

Vidya Natarajan said...

i always wondered about the contradictions..now having seen it in words...it is so weird!!
life on the whole in contradictory with respect to each and every single issue!

Karishma said...

yep, wel said!! :)

Deeps said...

thats soooooo perfect........ esp the significance of the yellow sunflowers :)(btw i was droppin a hint)

Karishma said...

wel u must ask the person to whome the hint refers to, to read this! :P

novitiate said...

i liked it too considering the depth of ur observation and research ! :D

Karishma said...

thank u :)