Remember
the game almost all of us played when we were kids? Color Color which Color?
What fun it was!!! And lately, I have come to realize that almost all childhood
games have a "hidden life lesson" or say a "hidden message"
for how to play the game of life. Let us take this particular game for
example-Color Color Which Color. I remember I used to like this game a lot, one
of the reasons being - that we always used to run out of colors and this made us
think about different colors and learn their names! Now, before we get into the
"hidden message" of "Color Color Which Color" , let me
explain the game. It is a game which can be played by two or more-no limits.
The denner shouts out loud a color which the other players must find around
them and touch it as soon as possible so that the denner doesn't catch them. If
the player fails to touch that color or if caught by the
denner before touching the color- then he becomes the new denner and the process continues till the time you just don't run out of colors. Now, the "hidden message"? No, not yet, but I shall explain it very soon. Before that I will talk about my sister, she is
equally philosophical like me. I know, I know "philosophy" is boring
and anyone and everyone is good at giving philosophical lectures :P But then
just listening to philosophical talks helps you understand ones' personality, perception and thinking (that
is what I think!). Anyway, So my sister - Keerti and I get into such discussions
a lot of times and then there is no end to it. It goes on and on and then, we
realize that we have ended the discussion on a competely different note than
we had started it with. So coming to the point- no! not to the point of
"hidden message" of "Color Color Which Color" yet-
but to the point that in one such discussions that my sister and I had,
she explained a thing, which probably solved all my guilty feelings of life.
She started it with some questions "what defines one's personality?", “Is it the same and never changing?" “Who defines
it?"- I had no clue about the answers. So she continued - "Everyone
has a different set of personality for everyone, like for example you! You are not the same
Kruti as you are with parents or for that matter when you are with your friends... you are
different to everyone! You are a different personality to your friends, your
parents your sister and so on and so forth! Does this mean you are fake? No! No
one is actually fake! No one likes to be fake. You cannot think of different
SHADES of your personality to be fake! All those personalities together -is
what makes you what you are. You reveal different shades of yourself to
different people. You cannot be the same person everywhere! Imagine you being
the same person to your parents the way you are with your friends! This explains the
reason as to why there is an awkward silence and a cunning smile from your friends
when they visit you at home. You need to be you in a way the situation and the people
around you - demand. Or else God save you from the troubles you may face! Ah this reminds me of -no it's not
the "hidden message"- just wait for some more time!
Excited, thrilled or amazed, I don't know which word would rightly describe that feeling. The feeling we had when we were told to stage a drama in our college as a part of our Theatre subject's curriculum. We concluded that Prem Gadhvi Sir, (professor for theatre) was not joking when he said that we had to deal with every aspect of a drama - all by ourselves!!!- from story line to directing to performing. It took us one and a half month to decide just on the story line. And then script was fun but required too much of brain storming. Right from the stage of script writing, we had stepped in to the shoes of the characters to get the appropriate dialogues-to get the feel of it. Directing was another major part, which had to be done smartly. My friends came up with amusing ideas and our sir helped us with the execution of it. Believe me it is very difficult to bring a drama from papers to stage.
That large echoing auditorium everyone standing in troops, holding their scripts, mugging up their dialogues, dressed in various costumes and waiting for their turn to use the stage for their last rehearsal was a sight that gave me an adrenaline rush!!! The day had come when we were supposed to exhibit our play. It was obvious that everyone wanted their play to be the best. The batch had come up with several themes like mime, Indian Pledge, Mystery of the lost train, Family drama and so on. You might be wondering why am I saying all this?The reason I am saying all this is to explain that- no not to explain the "hidden message" - but that our drama was a family drama in which we tried to show the expectations and emotions of various family members and the realization of their family bonding through COLORS. We had related the emotions to the seven colors of the rainbow and named our drama accordingly as "SATRANG". Then we were informed that we were the first group to perform! Hearing this my heart skipped a beat. I looked at my friends, to find some terror- but I could find only Colgate smiles returned to me. As per them it was good that our play would be the first one, we will have that "IMPACT", is what they had said. Their positive attitude made my eyes gleam with enthusiasm As far as the acting part was concerned, I don't know there is some charm that the stage holds, each actor just forgets himself and gets into the character deeply. Every play went well and it gave us immense pleasure when people came and told us that our play was one of the best and that we acted well.So that was an end to the drama event-an event never to forget!!!
So yeah about the-no not the "hidden message"- but the one thing I learned from our play was that everyone is made up of different emotions-colors. I feel the color white envisages all other colors, absorbs them! and hence gets its color WHITE (Peace), where as black just reflects all the colors. resulting to its color BLACK (Unrest, Fear). You need to be ready to accept any color in life in order to be at peace with life.There is a constant need to change the color of your personality as the situation and people demand or else you are OUT from the game of LIFE and then probably a denner.
Okay so where was I? The "hidden message"? Oh yes! the "hidden message"! -Common now! You are smart enough to have got it by now ;) The name of the game suggests it all...:)
That large echoing auditorium everyone standing in troops, holding their scripts, mugging up their dialogues, dressed in various costumes and waiting for their turn to use the stage for their last rehearsal was a sight that gave me an adrenaline rush!!! The day had come when we were supposed to exhibit our play. It was obvious that everyone wanted their play to be the best. The batch had come up with several themes like mime, Indian Pledge, Mystery of the lost train, Family drama and so on. You might be wondering why am I saying all this?The reason I am saying all this is to explain that- no not to explain the "hidden message" - but that our drama was a family drama in which we tried to show the expectations and emotions of various family members and the realization of their family bonding through COLORS. We had related the emotions to the seven colors of the rainbow and named our drama accordingly as "SATRANG". Then we were informed that we were the first group to perform! Hearing this my heart skipped a beat. I looked at my friends, to find some terror- but I could find only Colgate smiles returned to me. As per them it was good that our play would be the first one, we will have that "IMPACT", is what they had said. Their positive attitude made my eyes gleam with enthusiasm As far as the acting part was concerned, I don't know there is some charm that the stage holds, each actor just forgets himself and gets into the character deeply. Every play went well and it gave us immense pleasure when people came and told us that our play was one of the best and that we acted well.So that was an end to the drama event-an event never to forget!!!
So yeah about the-no not the "hidden message"- but the one thing I learned from our play was that everyone is made up of different emotions-colors. I feel the color white envisages all other colors, absorbs them! and hence gets its color WHITE (Peace), where as black just reflects all the colors. resulting to its color BLACK (Unrest, Fear). You need to be ready to accept any color in life in order to be at peace with life.There is a constant need to change the color of your personality as the situation and people demand or else you are OUT from the game of LIFE and then probably a denner.
Okay so where was I? The "hidden message"? Oh yes! the "hidden message"! -Common now! You are smart enough to have got it by now ;) The name of the game suggests it all...:)
