The gift of sight allows us to experience the world in its entirety. The verdant fields, the mysterious blue oceans, the technicolored skylines. Although sight and the perception of color seem like matters of insignificance to those of us who possess it, it is quite the tragic affair to lose it or not be born with it at all. I cannnot imagine a life where color doesn't play a role.
As children are brought up by their parents, one of the first things they learn are their basic colors. Next, they get their first coloring books and slowly but surely their imaginations begin to expand. Some of these children go on to become what i like to call, "poetry painters", or in modern day terms, artists. It is through talented people like this that history is made, recorded, and interpreted. Certain emotions are expressed in these paintings that help those of us looking back at them to understand its place in time based not solely on its subject matter, but on its color scheme.
A photograph is taken to capture a specific moment in time. One is taken in the gleaming neon lights of Time Square and the other in Gaza where there is war and destruction. Aside from the subject matter of each of these pictures and the moods they must certainly evoke, think of the types of colors that are shown. The blazing greens and pinks as opposed to the gloomy beiges and grays. Each picture can make a person feel a different way, each color can make a person smile or frown. Humans are born with connections to colors. This explains why seeing the color Red causes hunger, and why corporations like Mcdonalds use this to their advantage.
What people do not realize is just how much colors are a part of daily life. For instance, driving. You come to a RED stoplight and wait for it to turn GREEN. You go shopping for a new car and just HAVE to have it in BLUE! Sometimes I try to keep track of the amount of times I hear reference to colors or that I refer to them, and often I lose count.
Nature and all that exists within it is a rainbow, a neverending spectrum! What would our universe be without blue skies, green grass, vivid blossoming flowers, and the blazing Red-Orange-Yellow sun? Given the wonderful gift to see colors, and upon evalutating their significance in life, I say its time to buy a coloring book, tag up a wall, and maybe even paint the world to your liking. :)