Blog Post#2 What Color Is The Flower?

 Even before you start to read this post, think what color you think of when it says 'colorless'? Not like a person is colorless, but the literal meaning of it; having no color.

 It was the summer, about a month before I came to USA for the first time. The break was long, and I had nothing to do at home. I had to stay in my old house in Korea, and the saddest thing was that the house was even located in a mountain, so it would take 40 minutes to go down the mountain, and 30 minutes to get to the nearest town. The bus time wasn't even often, I usually just decide to stay at home rather than to take two hours to enjoy an hour. The bellybutton can't be bigger than its stomach. What I did was to snack on some food and watch some random shows on TV at the couch, or sit in front of the world slowest computer you can ever imagine, and test my patience. Still 24-hour-long day was long for me to waste like that. As having a lot of time, there comes a lot of thought about everything. I sometimes sat in the office room, where many books were stored, and read old stories I used to read years ago. Then, one story that I read on one day, just came to my mind. The story was about a flower having beautiful colors. She was so generous that she gave all the colors to the other flowers and finally, ended up having nothing left. The God watched the flower shivering in the snow, feeling sympathy and told the snow to give her a color of its. So I thought, 'what color was the flower then?' What color do you think it was?

 I'd never thought that colorless and invisible can be different. It was just that month that made me so sensitive about everything, and enlightened me. After having few days of thinking and research on the super-duper slow internet (Yes, that's the reason why it took even 'few days!'), I still could find some people had thought same thing as I did. I determined the word 'invisible' is the color that lets the light go through, so it reflects the color whatever behind the color. BUT, being colorless is way different. colorless is dark and lightless. To let you know easier, it is similar to the color black (at this point, I found that black, and dark is different), but a little not completely. I didn't know if people around me would accept my idea about it, but my friend told me to shut up and to play starcraft with them. Well, no one really cared (or some of them were strongly against me, being so conservative that they won't listen to me!), but I'll try to describe it here, on this post, again.

 As most of the people in the world think, when it is invisible or colorless, you can't see the object. However, in my opinion, colorless is black, to add more detail, it is dark. (Time out! Black is a color reflected by the light, but dark is when there's NO light and performs the darkness) Here comes a little science we learned in elementary school. There is an object, light and the eyes. In order to see the object, the light comes through the eyes first, then see the object. To the sub-conclusion, LIGHT equals to COLOR. Close your eyes and now what color do you see? It's black, more likely dark. Many people say colorless is same with invisible. if you are one of them, here's one more example coming. Imagine you are in a room that has no window. You closed the door and turned the lights off. Unless you are seeing the outside of the room somehow through the wall, the room is dark. Agreed? Drawing to the conclusion;


                 SUN                         l                          SUN
                  /                             l                              ＼
                /                               l                                 ＼
              /                                 l                                    ＼     
            /       O                        l                            X         ＼       
          /                                     l                                           ＼
       ↙                                      l                                              ↘
EYESㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ>OBJECT          l             EYESㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ>OBJECT

 ∴Dark = No light
 ∴No light ≠ Invisible, No light = No color
 ∴No color = Colorless
 ∵Colorless = Dark


 This is all I wanted to write about. I assume someone can throw literary questions, but I'm sure I can give higher-leveled explanation if I could use my own language. If any of you readers have any opinions about it, please comment! I would love to talk about it.