Blue is the color of light between violet and green on the visible spectrum.
What innocent babes in the wood we are, or rather let me speak only for myself, what a dolt I am. Though I had balked before writing about Violet and Indigo, I was smug about Blue. In my mind I had envisioned a cakewalk. That’s when out of the blue I started feeling blue around the gills. Fatigue had made its appearance out of a clear blue sky, making me feel black and blue all over. I cannot altogether say it was a bolt from the blue. It has been incapacitating me at the most inopportune times these past months. But, damn it blue blazes! Why couldn’t it wait for me to finish writing about blue, the loveliest of colors?! Anyways…
Blue it seems is THE favorite color of most people on earth. Once upon a time it was mine as well. Frankly, it was more on the lines of Everyone Loves Raymond. I am not aware if Raymond is indeed loved by everyone, but back in my childhood it seemed to me that everyone who was anyone loved the color Blue. So I made it my favorite color too. Yeah, I was more of a let-me-like-what-others-like sort of child those days. I usually professed love for songs, books, movies etc that others had sealed with their approval. Probably it had something to do with the fear of being ridiculed if I revealed my own personal favorites that may not be up there among the top notch ones. Quite a blue picture that, right?! (And this last sentence alone is going to get me hits from morons looking for films that have the blue tag to them. Why, oh why, did they have to choose blue to describe porn?!)
By the way Blue is a soothing color that comes in all sorts of mind-boggling names and shades. Nature has been generous to us as far as blue is concerned. Just gaze upwards at the sky each day and revel in the mesmerizing shades of blue it presents you with. Then there is the blue sea, endless, hypnotizing you with its constant motion that makes it change shades as if at its own whims and fancies. Never a dull moment while watching the sea! But here I have a question for you. Why are some seas not so bright a blue, but only greenish blue?
It is not just the sea and sky, blue abounds in nature elsewhere too. There are blue birds, frogs, flowers, precious stones, butterflies, starfish, blue whales, berries, and flowers, not to mention blue-eyed people too. So have you read about my blue-eyed boy? (link). Blue also brings to mind the human sea of blue-skirts pouring out of schools. In almost all the schools I studied the uniform was a shade of blue, be it Nirmala Convent in Vijayawada, St. Joseph’s School in Alleppey or Sacred Hearts in Tellicherry. Back then I was under the impression that it was mandatory to wear blue to school. How silly of me.
Sorry people. I hope today’s blog is up to mark. I certainly am not and am off to rest. So ends Blue Day on a blue note.
I am taking part in
Neha said:
My favorite colour is blue too!! 😛 and the post is “In the blue” 🙂 loved reading it!
shail said:
Thank you Neha 🙂
Rekha said:
Take care!
shail said:
Thanks, Rekha 🙂
Santulan said:
Blue is my favorite color. I associate blue with lightening, with the flame when it burns at its highest efficiency..All copper salts are Blue in color, which makes their identification easy
shail said:
I love what they call the copper sulphate blue 🙂
Roshni said:
I used to be fascinated with the Royal Blue ink that we used to get to fill in our ink pens back at school! That was so exciting to be ‘old enough’ to use a pen and the joy of writing with an ink pen!
shail said:
Royal Blue was the most popular ink color I think 🙂
shellymona said:
Blue uniform reminded me of my school days…sky blue is my favorite …even I wonder why most of the blue idioms are on the other side…… nicely described
shail said:
It is puzzling how blue is associated with depression 🙂
Shilpa Garg said:
Even we had a dark blue skirt and light blue shirt as school uniform. Love the clear blue waters too.
shail said:
We always had white shirts! Blue seas are an amazing sight.
subzeroricha said:
The chosen color was blue because you wanted to feature it or because the mood took you there? I am more interested in knowing that… Well blue of course reminds me of school- my blue tunic and white shirt 🙂
Richa
shail said:
Since the theme I have chosen is that of colors of the rainbow, obviously it is the turn of blue 😀
vishalbheeroo said:
Your take on Blue is one of the most beautiful thing for the challenge. This Shail doesn’t suffer from BLUES:)
shail said:
Lol, thank you. Yeah no blues for me, only the color 🙂
rainbowhues23 said:
In spite of how blue you felt , you managed to cole out a ‘perfectly’ blue post. I liked it. And that snide on the movies was out of the blue.
Thanks 🙂
shail said:
Lol, thank you, Kajal 🙂
Laxmi Chundi Addanki said:
Up to the mark and then some more 🙂 Love you always!
shail said:
Love ya too, Laxmi 😀
Kathy said:
I tend to love all colors but blue can be so soothing. I simply love my husband’s brilliantly blue eyes and am so happy my son inherited them.
shail said:
Wow, that’s lovely about blue eyes. 😀
pennymcdaniel62 said:
I love the color blue. It emits a vibe of peace and serenity for me. At one time people believed that thinking of the color blue helped with healing headaches. And in the Christian tradition, you always see Mary, the mother of Jesus, draped in blue. Interesting to see the different takes on the color blue. Wonderful post. Thank you.
Penny
http://pennymcdanielspiritualguidance.blogspot.com
shail said:
Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you for your comment. Blue and serenity seems to go hand in hand.
dandelionsinwind said:
Blue is my favorite color 🙂 The color gives me a sense of peace..
shail said:
It is indeed peace-inducing 🙂
seena said:
I love blue. And my sister and jeeju are madly in love with blue. We call them blue family 🙂 Blue reminds me of my past (school days) and makes me dream about the future ( a cruise vacation in deep blue sea )…
shail said:
Cruise vacation sounds lovely 🙂 Does the blue family house have everything in shades of blue? 😉
chsuresh63 said:
I am of those who like the color blue and I refuse to feel blue about it 🙂
shail said:
Good for you, Suresh! 🙂
meenamenon said:
Haaa I was one of those kinda child too – thankfully its a thing of past now :). N yea blue is one of my fav colors too 🙂
shail said:
Glad to know Meena 🙂
sheethalsusan said:
My once favorite was Blue. Had a Blue color dress which I treasured like anything. But with time it just went…
shail said:
So which is your fav color now? 🙂
Vivek said:
Blue was my favorite color too but somewhere along the way the more aware people confused me and now i don’t know. I would say “what a lovely blue shade is that” to be immediately admonished, “hey that’s aquamarine…or prussian blue ..or royal blue..sky blue..omg!.” Know what I mean? Still my love for blue can be seen from the accompanying photo..or is it navy blue or turquoise or tourmaline..or …whatever!
As for the porn films they are so because of the particular blue filter used to hide or suppress actor identities. How do I know this…hmmmm
shail said:
Yeah, how do you know? You wanted me to ask that, right? 🙂
aparnasdotcom said:
Blue is a great colour in all its shades…Hope you are out of the blue soon!!
shail said:
Yes indeed, to both 🙂
Anu Dev said:
Hey,I love how you weaved the “blue” into your post.Very well written.
I love blue no red no pink……oh gawd!! I love all the vibrant colors.BTW what isyour fav colour?
http://sailorswiferamblings.blogspot.com/2013/09/seven-sacred-chants.html
shail said:
Well I cannot make up my mind either. I love ALL colors. 🙂 Thanks, Anu 🙂
Karan said:
i love the colour blue and never does it gives me fatigue
you can check out my post here-
Karan – Brother
shail said:
Yea, it is soothing color 🙂
Usha Pisharody said:
Uh oh. No blue feelings allowed here 🙂 Do takare, Shail!
Blue is a favourite colour of mine. Even though school uniforms are blue too! The blue of the denim; and the blue blue skies… 🙂
Blue feelings? A-plenty!
Blue-bayou, the song 🙂
Loved the shades of blue here, except the one that made you blue!
shail said:
Gotta listen to that song and get back to you 🙂 Thanks, Usha 🙂