What's your color?

Its that colorful time of the year....Holi Haiiii!!!!

My childhood memories of Holi has been watching endless 'Holi Aayi Re' songs in Chitrahaar. We didn't play holi with colors back home. We used to just have water gun fight with no colors mixed. At the most we smeared a lil bit of gulal. Somehow that took the whole fun and meaning of 'holi' and gradually as the years passed I lost interest in it.

However, once I came to Pune, things changed. By the time I was in my 2nd year of college, there was no escape and I finally stopped resisting and was totally into it. As they say, 'if u cant fight them, join them'. Last few years in Pune, I played Holi with full gusto. Colors, eggs, mud, et all. Once we had our full, we used to scourge the city on two-wheelers...unrecognizable with faces smeared with all kinds of colors and hair stiff with dried eggs. Looking back, now I realise the restaurant owners in Pune were a sport, by not disallowing color-laden Holi-ers like us to sit in and gorge down their scrumptious lunches. Sigh! Those were fun times.

Came across this article on colors and thought wat better time than this to share with you all. Dunno how true this is, but what the heck...such stuffs were anyway meant for fun. I chose blue and the interpretation seems quite true.

Colors that surround us can influence our mood, our habits, our energy level & our health. To find out a little about yourself, choose the color among the eight listed below that most appeals to you. Colors say it all.

Red Orange

You are intense, vital, animated. You direct most of your activities towards success or conquest. You love to win. You hungrily desire all those things which offer intensity of living and fullness of experience. Thus you live life to the fullest.

Green

You are firm, constant and resistant to change. You place a high value on yourself, sometimes to the point of selfishness. You want your opinions to prevail because you believe you are always right. You're likely to put yourself on a soap box with regularity to moralize and lecture those around you who are less 'enlightened'.

Blue

If blue's your favorite you need emotional tranquility, peace, harmony and contentment in your life. You need your relationships with others to be placid and free from strife. You believe life should be dealt with calmly and ethically. You have a need to be trusted and need to trust those close to you.

Violet

If you're a violet person, you probably live in a dream world. You're looking for a knight in shining armour to carry you away or that 'one big break' that will leave you set for life. You're charming, sentimental and yearn for romantic tenderness and may be mentally or emotionally immature.

Yellow

You are industrious but your industriousness comes in spurts. You have a hopeful outlook on life with an eye always to the future. Finding greater happiness is on your mind much of the time. You may seek change in your life solely for the sake of change and are sometimes compulsive. You seek importance and the respect of others.

Brown

You may be ill or feel physically or psychologically distressed in some way. You may feel that you lack roots, that you have no place to relax and be at ease. You have an intense need for release from some situation which is making you uncomfortable - insecurity, illness, conflict with an inmate or problems with which you feel unable to cope.

Grey

If you prefer grey, you probably tend to keep to yourself. You remain uncommitted and uninvolved in the goings - on of everyday life so that you can shield yourself from any outside influence or stimulus. You are unwilling ti take part in what's going on around you.

Black

A preference for black denotes intense dissatisfaction with almost everything. You believe nothing is as it should be. You refuse to allow anything to influence your point of view.

Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous Holi...filled with love, colors and laughter!!