colors

This is completely hypothetical. COMPLETELY. I would never do this to my kid.

Parents teach their kids colors, right? Well, what if a parent told their child that green was red. And red was green. That poor child would be incapable of communicating colors to others. My Christmas tree is red. The grass is red! Umm....no it's not. At least according to the standard. The words red and green are really just arbitrary representations of the color itself. (Not unlike how hexadecimal codes in html are symbols of the amount of red, green, and blue in an image--little web design shout out).

In the same vein, we probably all see colors a little differently. The way the light bends into our eyes, the way the cones on a retina process that light, and even what we have assumed to be the standard for a color affect the label we give to it. I remember talking to one of my church friends about this PURPLE dress. She was convince that it was blue. Obviously, we were seeing the dress differently or someone had told her that purple was really blue. But trust me...it was purple.

Sorry if this didn't make any sense.
Until the next rant,
~Alice