Monday 17 March 2014

Festival of Colors - HOLI

Every morning when I draw the curtains apart, the blue sky, orangish yellow sun shining behind the white clouds, greenery of the area and birds flying, is a beautiful picture of morning which brings pleasant smile for a day to start. “Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors” - Joseph Addison. If you look around, our life is full of colors; it’s omnipresent. Colors add so many boosts in life; imagine everything colorless, you have no color choice to pick from your wardrobe, just white or black. Though white and black colors have their own presence in the whole bunch of colors, but surely they need to be blended well with others to stand out. Johannes Itten expressed it aptly by quoting “Color is life; for a world without colors appears to us as dead”.

Colors even effect us emotionally, where Colors can essay a person’s mood; like when you are happy and excited you pick your favorite color clothes. Pablo Picasso very well said “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions”.Some may like bright colors for their clothing while a few may opt for pastel shades. Colors are even gender biased as girls like mostly shades of pink and red, boys usually prefer blue n black. Colors also hold an importance in every culture & the color used in such occasions may vary according to culture.


Seasons too have an impact of colors, in all the seasons Spring is most colorful. During this you have all attractive multicolored flowers budding, trees filling with vibrant shades and everything is just beautiful about this season. Color festival is illustrious to mark the liveliness of colors in life, and is celebrated all over the world. Hindu spring festival, HOLI also marks this colorful start of season. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of month Phagun according to hindu calendar. This festival is celebrated by coloring each other with powders (gulal) and colored water.




Holi is the time when everybody gets out of the dimness of winter and rejoices blends with beginning of colorful spring; it also gives you a chance to all to forget all enmity and get indulged in celebrating. Enjoy the vibrant energy of the spring.


!! HAPPY COLORFUL HOLI & HAPPY SPRING !!

I wish every one of us to get the most from this festival. Fill your hearts with so much colors, that you are never in shades of fear, anger, hate, ignorance and always with shades of knowledge, kindness, friendship, love, serene. 


“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.” - Wassily Kandinsky


@Sonal

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