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Colors,colors description for those who are sight disabled.

For a normal human, whenever we say red or blue or violet, the colors that correspondence with the words will appear in their mind. However for those who are visually impaired, they seem to be having a problem with colors. All they can see and observe are just darkness, black as pitch as the night, never seeing what is happening around them. They can hear, they can feel, they can smell but they can never see.

For them, its just the normal monotonous color. Thus, when you tell them that its black in color, you'd better describe to them that its cold, open space with not a single light that can filter through, an endless abyss. After which only they can imagine what the color resembles.

Take red for example. We usually initiate red with anger as the color itself is very bold, such were the old saying; seeing red. But if I were to describe the color red, I'd tell them that its like a touch of your lover's lips onto your person. The warmth and tingling feeling that shivers down your spine. The soothing feeling of your tired muscles as you relaxes in the hot tub after a long tiring day. All of that will pinpoint to one thing; the essence of the color red.

However if you were to describe the essence of the color wrongly, imagine what the handicap would be imagining. For example, the feel of sticky and watery earth after a long rain for the description of blue color is wrong. It doesn't even correspond to anything that has blue pigments. At least if you describe the roaring sound of the waves as it crashes down the beach is much more reasonable. Mud and blue doesn't correspond.

It is all in the essence of the color. What we feel and think of whenever the thought of the said colors crosses our mind. How we feel and what we see with our perfectly working eyes are important in describing to a person who has and never will see colors.

We usually take what we have for granted. Try imagine being in their shoe. It is frustrating for them to keep seeing the same old thing since their dawn of their birth. However as the years goes by, the feeling of acceptance with his handicap and countering it with other ways makes them far better than normal people.

Therefore we must be particularly careful when describing the essence of each colors to the visually impaired. Most of the descriptions that is given will remain in their memory until the end of time.

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