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is something that recently crossed my mind. If the reason we are crying
would be connected to the color of our tears – what would it be? We all
cry and not just for one reason, so how would it be if we could know
the reason someone’s crying by the color of the tears?
There is also a symbolic description of what each and every color
presents, and it is proved that colors have influence of peoples
feelings and emotions. There was an experiment on this – they put a man
into the room with red walls (and everything else inside was red) and
after a while when they let him out, he became noticeably more
aggressive than he was before. And what do you think, why the hospital’s
and other medical institution’s walls are green? It is said that the
olive green color represents peace, which is especially needed in
hospitals where everyone is sick and in panic for his/her own life and
health. So, let’s go back to the subject, we know that our emotions as
well as our tears are very hard to control, but if our tears could
reveal the reason of crying, how would it look like?
1. Red tears
I guess that red is the color associated with so much more things than
any other color, except for black, maybe. It is most often connected
with love, blood, passion… Well, since we (often) don’t cry from
passion, we’ll have to look at some bad connotations of red color,
something that would be worth crying. The ‘negative’ side of red is that
it represents (and evokes) feelings like anger, malice, rage,
aggression, wrath, hate, violence. Very intensive emotions, that demand
an action. So, if we cried from an anger, hate, not expressed
aggression, our tears would be red. It could be a good indicator that
someone is in one of these moods, and needs to calm down a little.
2. Yellow tears
Yellow has lots of good ‘aspects‘, it is the color of the Sun in the
first place, than it is connected with life, energy, wisdom,
intelligence, joy, happiness, even gold! The other side of a
(golden-yellow) medal is that this is the most upsetting color for
babies, so remember not to paint the baby’s room yellow. Bad emotions
that could provoke crying attached to this color are betrayal,
dishonesty, deceit, jealousy, illness, cowardice, fear, caution. So if
any of these feelings and emotions provoked our crying, our tears could
be yellow.
3. Blue tears
An ancient Chinese belief says that this is a spiritual color, it
denotes sky and Heaven. It may represent water and cleanliness too. It
is a cool color, the opposite of red and yellow and it symbolizes
tranquility and calm. Some people say that it is good to keep the water
in the blue bottles – well, here’s the connection. Ok, that’s good,
let’s go to the ‘dark’ side of the blue. P.S. There is one unresolved
question – why is this color considered masculine? You know how people
always buy blue stuff for boys and pink stuff for girls… Well, the only
bad thing blue is connected to, besides declaration that it suppresses
the appetite, is depression. So, blue tears equals depression. This
would be the most serious cry for help.
4. Purple tears
Purple is a mixture of red and blue, we all discovered it when playing
with watercolors. So, it’s the same in symbolism – it combines the
emotions of these two colors. The mixture brings harmony and calm in
aggressive red and revivifies the tranquility of blue. It also
symbolizes the royalty and magic. It is not so frequent in nature, so it
was connected to royal families’ portraits, because of its cost (to
make it artificially) and only such persons as kings and princes had
money for it. If we cried purple tears, it would mean that we are
nostalgic, frustrated, sad or maybe even insane! So, hope not for the
purple tears!
5. Black tears
Well, even if we are not completely sure what does black stand for, we
can assume that it is nothing good. We even use it to describe some
really bad things, or things we don’t understand, like Black hole, black
mailing… Though it is scientifically explained as an absence of colors
(so, it’s not the color at all), as well as white, our eye still notices
it the same way as red or blue. There are little good meanings of black
– like elegance (little black dress or black suit), or sophistication
and formality. But in Christianism it is used to mark grief, it should
be worn for 40 days after someone close to you dies. In psychology, it
denotes loneliness and remorse, so if this sounds familiar to you, you’d
better expect black tears. It is also called ‘the color of the night’
when dark forces act; black represents world opposite to the daylight
one, we can see that well showed in movies. Also, it stands for bad luck
and misfortune, so here’s the plenty of reasons why someone could cry
black tears, if we exclude mascara.
6. Green tears
The first thing that crosses your mind when you think of green is
nature, isn’t it? Or money? Well, this color is similar to blue by its
coolness and calming effects. It is said that green can improve one’s
sight. Good attributes of this color are its connection to eternal life –
like evergreens (literally and metaphorically), health, freshness and
safety. Darker tones of green remind of money and military – something
that can represent safety. It is also used to express immaturity (that
originates in relation to fruits or vegetables, when they’re not ripe
yet) and we say that someone is a ‘green horn’ when he/she is
inexperienced. Bad aspects are the symbolization of envy, discord and
jealousy. So, if you can get so envious that you cry about it, now you
know what you should expect.
7. Transparent or ordinary tears
According to this division, transparent tears would mean or the cry with
happiness or cry for no reason. Anyway, nothing new. Unfortunately, we
cry so rarely with happiness and so frequently for no corresponding
reason, though we think we have it. Nevertheless, these tears are all we
have.
Well, this is it… I hope that this SF tears crying guide was
interesting to you, because, unfortunately, I can’t leave you with
nothing else than regular tears and a message not to let them out too
often.
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