A World Without Color

A world without color is like a year without rain. No ruby reds, no crimson oranges, no comforting yellows. No refreshing greens, no cleansing blues, no majestic purples. A lost way of expression. A lost place in time. And where we would be without colors, I wonder.  There are so many questions too. Why did the Elders abolish color? Was there pain associated with color? How? What problems were there that they had to get rid of color? What new problems were created?

            I force myself to believe that there is no pain with the gift of color, but the more I think about it, I question myself: is color a gift or a burden- why else would the Elders have to banish color? Color is a way of expression, a way of unique style, a way of seeing moods and feelings, but color can also be an unwanted thing in this world. Color, since it’s a way of showing uniqueness and differences, leads to problems such as judgment, jealousy, bullying, potentially war, and other forms of evil. I would miss color though, if it left our world. You wouldn’t see a sunny yellow dandelion blooming in the soft and green field- that vision would be replaced with a sea of grey, spiky, blades of grass, with a pesky white weed growing in the center of it. The view and interpretation is changed entirely. You wouldn’t see a deep blue ocean, gently rolling over the tan, grainy sand. Instead, you would witness never-ending black waters that crash on the shore and seem like they want to pull you in to the black hole. See? A completely new perception.  That’s why color is so important to have in life.

            Color is a mystery in life and, I guess, it always will be. We will never know everything, get answers to everything, or plainly, know. We will have questions, some that can be answered like here, but others that will be etched in our brains, the ones that just keep tugging and tugging at your head to know more. We maybe will never be able to find the key to this locked door, but while we are here questioning, we should appreciate color, it is something we can all relate to and something we should never let go and leave in the dust. Color has an importance here and we should let it know that, because, a world without color is a world of nothingness and a world of nothingness is, well, nothing.            Once we let it out of our grasp, it tumbles away from us and is gone; Gone forever.