My colour green

 Hi friends,

             What is your favourite colour? This is a question which is usually asked to children.  Blue for boys and pink for girls because men are from Mars and women are from Venus. The arrival of boys are celebrated by decorating the crib with the theme of blue colour while the arrival of girls is celebrated with pink colour. I do not know why blue is the colour of  'macho' and pink is the colour of 'delicates.' These fixation of colours for the genders should change.  If this change has to happen, it is for parents to decide to stop celebrating birthdays of their wards with blue colour or pink colour cakes.

             Well, my favourite colour from childhood upto now remains green. In school,  I always belonged to the green house in every grade when rest of the houses were red, blue, yellow. It is not that I don't like other colours, but I like green more because it is the colour of flora. Can we imagine pink or blue colour for leaves of the plants and trees.  If I had cut a pink cake, would my colour preference have changed? I don't think so. I have grown in Kerala, which is the land of coconuts and of Western ghats. Even today, the state remains more or less the same because of less industrialisation. Land of coconut trees, jackfruit trees, plantain trees,  mango trees. Green is always the colour of hope and positivity. Before leaving the trees bare during winters, the colour of a leaf change from green to yellow, orange, red, brown after which it falls down. Of course,  we do not get to see this in most parts of India, but in cold countries this is an annual phenomenon which attracts lots of tourists. The colour change in a leaf signifies various stages in life. If green is the colour of childhood and youth, the rest of the colours indicate the later stages in life until the last breath in living beings. If bare trees mean death and stillness, the sprouting of fresh leaves during spring indicates new birth and the spread of hope to live on. If red carpet is rolled out to welcome important persons and dignitaries, our mother nature has green carpets rolled out when we look out from the flight windows to see a place full of trees instead of endless concrete jungles. Which one gives us happiness- green carpets or concrete jungles? Green is the sign to go forward while red is the sign of danger and to stop. Green logo is the sign for vegetarian dishes. When we see a beautiful,  fresh garden full of plants and flowers, the happiness and the calmness our minds experience cannot be expressed in words. We exclaim that he/she has got green fingers. 

Aerial view of greenery or green carpet before landing at Trivandrum airport. 

                But why do I love the colour green? It is just an ordinary person's preference for one colour over other colours. There is nothing official,  religious or political connection to it!! What is your favourite colour or colours?

Deepa.