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Black & Me
By Peace | February 21, 2007
I do not like black colour. However, I do wear black clothes and I do have black objects in my life. Certain things look nice in black. However, some other things such as insects, especially a clump or cluster of insects look really disgusting and that is what I even more hate of.
Though black is not my favourite colour, some things, like I say looks good in black. And some things are just happen to be in black and in nature they exist in black! For example, charcoal are useful for campfire and barbecue. I need to use charcoal for these purposes. When I attend some grand occasion, there are times where I look better in Black. And I wear black! My handbags and shoes are black! My schnauzer dog was black too!
It is Chinese New Year season now. And Chinese New Year is something that is meant to be auspicious. Black is something that people do not want to see, especially if you want to visit people’s house in Black! Then be ready to get some ‘nagging’ from relatives and families when they see you wearing in Black! During Chinese New Year, most people want to wear red, what they consider to be auspicious colour. That is another colour that I detest. I do not like red colour either. However, the same applies to black as well. This doesn’t mean that I do not like red rose and some red clothes! The reason for having ‘fear’ of red, of course there is a reason behind every story! I will dealt about it in another post.
This is a post that arouse me to write about at Helium:
Why black is used as a symbol of mourning
Black is a gloomy and inconspicuous colour. Black is often seen as evil, mysterious, and even signify sadness. In nature black is a colour of dirt, a colour of charcoal, and that of the soot. Why is black used as a symbol of mourning?
In Chinese customs, when people die such as those of old people, the children will need to wear black, and some others wear different colours such as green, white, blue and even red. In places like Hong Kong, we always see people dressed in black and even with sunglasses when their friends or relatives die. Black is often worn as a symbol of mourning. I think that it is because black signify sadness. When we are happy, we normally would want our lives to be ‘colourful’. Whenever we see rainbows, we feel happy and even filled with awe to see the rare sight of rainbows. Rainbows are so colourful and it is something that we do not get to see everytime. People yearn to see rainbows. The sight of it makes people feel happy and even surprises to see it! When people die, especially our love ones, we are filled with grief. Nothing seems to be joyful when there are death and grief in our hearts. Even the sight of rainbows would be meaningless. We do not want to dress in ‘colourful’ clothes either. Our feeling of sadness and grief naturally make us feel there is no colour in lives with the loss of love ones. Thus, black is the best colour to signify our feeling — feeling of sadness, grief, lost and emptiness at the loss of someone in the world.
We mourn for the lost of our love ones. During times of mourning, it is natural that we feel sad and hence as mention earlier, it is natural that we are not in the mood to feel ‘colourful’ — hence, people who mourns tends to wear black. There is no mood and time to merry-making when there is death or loss of love ones in the family.
When people die, we do not know where they will go to and what will happen to them too. Black, besides a colour of sadness, grief, emptiness and lost, it also symbolizes mysterious, evil, as in black magic, witches and sorcerer. Thus it is the best colour to indicate death and mourning.
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These are all based on my own experiences and my own logic thinking, when I have lost my pet some time ago. Grief also experienced when there is a loss of somebody in my life at some part of my lives, not necessary death. The feeling of grief and sadness experience by loss of my beloved gave me insight on this particular topic.
