Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/29/2007 11:06 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 01/03/2008 09:12 AM
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Color and The Silent Language of Revelation~By Karen Wildwood
This week I found out that color speaks a very powerful language. Now, I know that some colors make people happy when they’re around them, and, others are reported to make people calm, but this new aspect of the language of color revolves around what it reveals about another person....
This new revelation will have us all believe that there is a silent language of color that speaks to the language of love, combining the two so that all single, and not so single people, out there can get a birds eye view into another’s psyche just by asking them what their favorite color is.
As if I, and all other single people, didn’t have enough to worry about when meeting someone new. I not only have to worry about what I look like, whether I’m interesting enough or if I have salad stuck in between my teeth, now, I have to worry about not only what my favorite color means, but also about what that other person’s favorite color means as well.
Apparently, a success coach and purported best-selling author, don’t ask me her name, I forgot, has studied color theory and has decided that you can deduce what makes a person tick just by finding out their favorite color.
Some beauties of color interpretation include the statement that people who like red are into immediate gratification, those who like orange are sexy and those that like green really know what love is really about.
I don’t know about you, but I never thought of green as having anything to do with love, in fact I’ve always associated it with the color of institutions. As for orange being sexy, well, I like orange, but I think more of happiness, oranges and sunshine than anything remotely having to do with sexy.
I’m curious as to how you find out someone’s favorite color. How do you bring this up in conversation? It’s not like most people go around asking each other what their favorite color is. I have friends that I’ve know for years and if that was a question on the game show of, How Well Do You Know Your Friend, I’d just walk off the stage, because I wouldn’t know the answer, and the reverse is true too. Think about it. Do you know the favorite colors of your closest friends?
Friends aside, I don’t even know my ex-husband’s favorite color.
If I didn’t ask him, it’s not like it’s going to be easier, or even enter my consciousness, to ask someone new what his favorite color is. I go back to the question of how do you bring this up in conversation? On a first or second date, it’s not like you can be talking about the weather and all of sudden slip, ‘the color blue in a clear sky is nice, is that your favorite color?’, into the conversation without seeming a little odd.
Of course, if things aren’t going so well from your perspective, it may be a good thing to seem a little odd. Then you don’t have to go through the mental gymnastics of, if he asks you out again do you, A, tell the truth that you’re not interested or do you, B, make up some sort of lame excuse. I always try to deal out A, but seeming odd is not a bad refuge, unless that particular person thinks odd is cute, then you’ve got a problem.
Trying to get to know someone, then trying to find out their favorite color and make some sort of association about their character seems like a lot of work to me. I’d rather just get to know them for them. After all, if the color analysis is right and you’ve been paying attention to the person you’re with, you shouldn’t be surprised to find out that the guy who wants to do everything right now is a lover of red
And, what do you do if they don’t have a favorite color? The answer to that one is simple, base your opinion of them on how they are, just like you would if they did have one.
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