Importance of White

Excitement of a long awaited vacation started last month. it was not because for summer vacation for a longer period but excitement of vacation lies in visiting to Leh and Kashmir. My children kept on asking when they are going to play in snow. While coming from Delhi to Leh by flight, we could see the beauty of snow capped mountain. It was messimerising that children could not stop their excitment to see it. When we landed in Leh airport, get the feel of the temperature difference. Pleasant air breeze with chilling effect and snow capped mountain view all around made the butterfly in our stomach.

Next day we headed to Kardung La Pass, the highest motorable peak in the world at 17500 ft. When we we were heading from 11500 ft to 17500 ft, we embraced the beauty of nature much closer. Our excitement were much more to see and touched them and finally we did. It was like white silky bedsheet wrapped the mountain beautifully. But while experiencing the same it reminded me and intrigued with a question that what is importance of white colour in our life? Most of time when we talk of colour, our mind occupies with rainbow colours. But what about white colour? How does it make difference to our life and nature itself?

'White' is a very friendly colour, gives home to all colourfull colours and their importance. If we want to have a beautiful canvas, we strike the brush in white paper itself and each colours are embolden in white background. While doing so white colour losses it visibility. It sacrifices its colour for other friends. Even we have noticed that while entering into new home we get the wall painted with white as base colour, others colours occupies in it later.

White finds importance in our culture and tradition. Our school uniform,white shirt are in white colour and learning at school starts with white chalk and white note book. Dhoti symbol of our long tradition is also white in colour. White also represents simplicity and transparency. It finds a place in our national flag. White flag represents pease & prosperity. 

In nature, white tiger, white elephant and white peacock always attracted nature's lover because of their uniqueness. 

What does come to your mind when you see white colour? Please leave your comment.