Colors of the Rainbow

About two weeks back I went for my school reunion. While talking to a friend she casually mentioned, her husband sees the world in black and white and she tries to tell him – “the world is not black and white, there’s also a color called gray”. I went into memory lane, as these were exactly the words my husband has told me so many times. I don’t know why but I wanted to shout “don’t do that”. I felt that urge probably because I too see the world in black and white that too in dot matrix, we started to talk on some other topic and I forgot the matter. The next day while I was traveling alone in the train the thoughts came back to me, I started feeling uncomfortable I wanted to tell her not to do so, but I didn’t know what to tell her or how to tell her. Then suddenly something spoke within me, I will quote the exact words here -

“It’s true the world is not black and white, but then there’s a bigger truth the world is not grayscale either; it’s colorful, as colorful as the rainbow. Each color has its own beauty and its own significance. All three views are different from each other, yet each of them is beautiful in its own way. “

And then something strange happened - the urge to stop her from doing so simply vanished. I realized, I was my own dilemma and the truth has just revealed itself to me – “Look for the Colors”. Suddenly I knew - my picture will probably still remain dot-matrix but now I could sense the colors of the rainbow slowly seeping in the picture and the black and white dots gradually changing to colored dots.