If emotions were
colours, if they were tangible, what a beautiful array of rainbows would we see
at airports and hospitals?
In arrivals at an airport there are smiles
and laughter, tears of joy. Mothers welcoming home their children with relief,
wives embracing their husbands, grandparents holding their grandchildren for
the first time: hues of reds and greens.
At departures there are strong emotions too, this
is the other side of the coin, sorrow and farewells, tears of sadness. Mothers
sending their fresh-out-of-school little girls out into the big world to work
in a foreign country, wives saying goodbye to their uniformed husbands, not
knowing when they’ll return, sons saying their farewells to their ageing fathers:
shades of purples and blues.
When at a hospital, there are proud fathers leaving
after seeing their new born babies. This is the place where women get transformed into mothers and their lives and love for something more than themselves is forever
changed. Children cleared of cancer,
successful surgeries on a father after a fatal accident that took his wife and
leave him with three children. Visible
tinges of yellows and oranges would seep through the ventilation system.
But as with anything in this double edged
sword we call life, a few wards away, there are solid thick smog-like colours, mahogany
and grey, hanging from the ceilings, sitting in corners of rooms, waiting to
breed on the strong emotions of grief and distress. Mothers having to lose
children, sons having to lose fathers, daughters having to lose mothers. Prays so strong that if we could hear them
all it would be a dissonance of words, pleads...hope.
What would it be like to see all these
emotions visible – what a picture!
The Hindus celebrate a religious Spring
festival called Holi or ‘Festival of Colours’. The festival is a celebration of
the start of Spring and the au revoir of winter. It originally was to honour good crops and
fertile land. While celebrating, bonfires are lit and people throw coloured
powder on each other. The
earliest textual reference to the celebration of Holi is found in the 7th
century. The first is smearing of coloured powder on each other, and
throwing coloured and scented water at each time
This adornment of colour made me think of
this train of thought I’m having of making our emotions a tangible rainbow.
So this 1st of September, reflect on emotions as a
cacophony of colour.
Pictures Courtesy of:
Events & Festivals Blog
BBC UK News
Rough Dreams and Ice-cream
Lands of Wisdom – Energy Healing: Colour Vibrations
China Fashion Blog
Deviant Art: Rainbow Colours by Ninelyn
On The Go Tours
