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Feeling beyond the Blue

Fariha Ishrat Khandaker

IT'S not a Monday, and I think the moon is all too excited about the rhythm and the echoes in which our solitary lives are but all encompassed by mirth and peaceful tranquillity. Then again, setting up a scenario where the band playing in the background has B.B. King singing with his guitar 'Lucille', and the audience swaying to the dim-lit rays of the moon (its B.B. King that led to the hyperness of our frozen satellite rock). Maybe, this is all because the overarching shade that has tinged the entire visual out-reach of our minds is only but in the shade of azure; or blue as we are all too familiar with.

As we venture into the abyss of the Greek mythology, even Zues did manage to feel sad at times (it just so happens that his domestic squabbles were more in line with HBO's Big Love theory). Nonetheless, he was sad often and when he cried, it rained (surprise indeed); and thus the modern day notion of 'feeling the blue'. But then the Germans will always have a different intake on this issue; henceforth to be blue for them is to be drunk. Well, they were close, since surely Zues did end up getting drunk to lessen his misery. However, the German notion is derived from the unhygienic usage of the human liquid excrement, after the mortal concerned has consumed enough alcohol, in dying clothes a particular colour…blue. Fine, I shall refrain from anything that is all that gross. But really, what would probably be even worse is if we realized the extent to which, with impudence, we live a life of utter hypocrisy. A Marxist point of view would look at how the 'blue collar' effect reaches beyond just the workforce. And maybe they are used for jobs pertaining to the proletariats is because the work is 'coloured'. Just give it a thought. As Harper Lee put so aptly, 'Kill all them blue jays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird.”

Sigh, if oceans depict the vastness of life, then we all know just the shade that it is in. Thus, on a happier note, even though the disastrously short-lived successful boy-band Blue, rejoice in their efforts of uniting the world with 'one love' , they at least picked a colour that does make people happy and calm. Yet again, a prominent symbol of secularism, this radiant colour can take turns in being empoweringly soothing to as vibrant as the blazing fire in the kindling of an octane infusion. Even psychics who seem to never know what they will do next, somehow regard blue as the colour of the spirit and intuition, which in some form prevails in all of us. Religions highly regard the capacity of blue as an illustration of the glory of the ever so omniscient One. So goes to saying that even royalty and their minions all drape themselves in blue in an effort to implement some form of power before historically eventual uprising of revolutions. Let's not forget that wherever Napoleon lacked, he made up for it; and the blue on his coat is to justify for that. Moreover, the sky, the wind and the rhythms all bow down to the enormity of that which is serene to the touch and the emotions where by sight it is all insinuated in blue.

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