White...

                     White... is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said gaudily, as when He paints in white.

-Gilbert K. Chesterton

        I have never really accepted white as a color but then it is not even the absence of color... in fact it is the essence of all colors! Science proves that white alone holds all the essential colors of the whole universe. One white splits into seven and from those seven, are made thousands.
        White stimulates optimism and increases the will of reaching perfection. It allows us to feel peace, it gives me the feeling of serenity, and calmness, and kindness. Watching fluffy white clouds chasing each other across skies calms my mind and watching the fresh snow cover the land cools the eyes! It reminds me Wilkie Collins novel 'The Woman In White' in which she said "little girls always look neater and better all in white than in anything alse". I do not know why... but this line has stayed with me from the moment i read it (almost five years back).
        Astrologers say that color white is related to the sign of cancer (my sister's and she sure was calm, loving, caring and pure!) and that it symbolizes purity. I guess this is the reason why; brides walk to the alter dressed up in white, we dress the dead in white for their journey to the next world, mosques and temples are painted white, the elders are pure and wise with their hair white!
        Yes it sometimes gives me the feeling of eerie emptiness and solitude but mostly its soothing and calm and white. Nothing in this world is as pure and perfect as white this is the reason that it keeps motivating us towards purity and perfection. For me it defines truth!