Green Glass

Think of green glass laid over a solid colored, yellow, textured paper. And then place a red colored spotlight over the surface. Even better — imagine this effect in a dark room with not too much light in the first place!

Why do different colors juxtapose so well when laid across each other — especially when the medium is different as in glass, paper, or light? Yet how many of us have the time to explore supposedly useless activity like the one I just described? We often drift into a world of mechanical routine, almost each time we attempt to do something different.

Maybe that’s the reason why the wise have said that there is little difference between the eccentric and the intellectual — maybe they were not wise at all to come up with such a conclusion, or they may have been. Or they may have been as undecided as I am today — living between two worlds?

Let me look again at that green glass — this time I’m going to place the paper above the glass and then precariously let me lift them both together with my left hand. The right hand now conveniently picks up the red spotlight and throws a glow onto them from below. Ouch — my left arm lost its balance and the paper and the glass both fell off my hands. The paper has some scratch marks and the glass is broken into so many pieces that I can almost see powdered glass. The sound was mesmerizing — I mean the sound of the glass falling to the ground, and the red light seems to almost awaken me from my sleep, and a strange dream!

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