I’ve been privileged enough to have lived in multiple parts of the world, Far East Asia, South Asia, the Middle east, and now South Africa. As far as I can work out, one of the most determining factors affecting one’s mood, is environmental factors, and the way the world looks where you are right now.
If you peer out of the window, and look at the vastness and overwhelming beauty of creation, you’ll notice something- everything has a certain colour- a slight tinge.
If you’re in an equatorial location, I’ve tended to notice things are more yellowish, and the closer you get to the peripheries of the planet, the poles, things tend to be a bit more blue.
Most of the time it’s not that noticeable, especially if you’ve been in a place for a long time, but you’ll notice this if you travel vast distances in the longitudinal directions, you’ll have this certain perception, you might not really be able to put your finger on it, but it’s the colour temperature of the new environment.
Obviously, the landscape, and fauna tend to play a big role too- Saudi is sand, not much green, so as Coldplay would say, “it was all yellow”, while somewhere like Scotland, rolling hills, tend to be bluish.
So staying in somewhere like Saudi, everything always has a slight orange yellow tinge.
China, or at least the northern mountains, think Himalayas and Siberia, where I was, tended to have endless blue skies, and a more colder colour temperature.
South Africa, tends to lean on the bluer side.
The reason this crossed my mind, is because its overcast today.
And when it’s overcast in the south, the temperature gets colder, and the colour gets warmer.
A juxtaposition, that gives us something very special.
Neutrality. A median, between blue and yellow.
White. Not white as in washed out, not white as in grey and gloomy, but white as in clear and crisp.
White as in sharp and serine. As in unobstructed.
The reason I bring up South Africa in particular, is because its special in the sense that the vegetation is a lush, deep majestic, mysterious mesmerising green, that when untinged, has an almost sedative, meditative property to it, which, upon dwelling amongst the ferns, you take a deep breath, and then,
calm.
No noise. No fog. Clarity of the mind. Suddenly it all makes sense, suddenly it all has a meaning, its all manageable. This is not the fallacy of flora, rather the felicity of foliage.
Bear with me, I ask of you kindly, for I have not gone mad, nor become unhinged.
Rather, this is but a prose of a plea, a humble request, if you will, to gander into the yonder, to look beyond the buildings, to appreciate God’s gift to the world.
Eden is built on lushes’ gardens, not on a sprawling metropolis.
We’ve been given but a sample, a taste of the Devine hotel in the sky, a teaser trailer.
To be in touch with oneself, is to be in touch with nature.
Appreciate this great gift, look up at the stars, look down to the grass.
Go.
step out into the wilderness, find your loci.
Why do you think all these wellness apps have leaves or stones as icons?
“But, it’s not it my nature to go out into the lands and explore!”
Not in your “nature”.
Ironic, to say the least.
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