A COLOURFUL WORLD

A COLOURFUL WORLD

We love rainbow nations like we have today where colour defines close to everything we do. Dark men choose to date girls of a lighter complexion; Sudanese girls’ desire a life with white men; just to weave a difference in the colour of their babies. Three quarters of my cloths are black, grey or blue coz I have a tendency of wanting to hide in the crowds. Artists attest to the fact that the choice of colours and the colour balance we create more so in our houses determines our levels of energy as we go out to face life and as we retire to our homes after work. Of course my cup of green tea has been as such addiction as Maskadudu’s glass of red wine. Talking of smart dress-down, you cannot beat my friends from Tseikulu whose girls do their yellow dresses and march well with their boyfriend in yellow shirts and orange  jeans definitely in-steps with their most famous son who adorns his popular shirt; red on one side of symmetry and green on the other side. No hard feelings though; I know he’ll improve on colours like my friend Kim who in our younger days would be perfectly dressed in a green trouser, blue shirt, white shoes and his trademark red socks.

It was one of those days Violet would rather forget. She arrived home lugubrious and blue that evening and felt like knocking her head against the grey walls of her single end room. This was after a day of white realities that had made her day so black that she could only cool off the anger by some smooth sounds of Blues from her silver radio system. She could hardly swallow the idea that her husband, all along had been a patron of the red light district, the more reason he was never home before it turned dark. It’s Hard to say but at some point, we’ve got to let humans be humans and show their true colours.

You have no idea how hard it has been for me to be a fan of a football club without colour. We’ve lost almost all important games and have since gone silent. That’s why am considering ditching the gunners for the reds, a team that easily brings the red devils to their knees and makes the blues see blue.

Things were rainbow as usual in Nikiso (True name withheld so as not to put the country to disrepute), a tiny country neighbouring the Banana republic to the north. People lived to enjoy their red plums, oranges and green apples. But One day, overnight, the country turned violet. everything turned violet from the sky and ocean and mountains to the trees and animals and people and from the tallest skyscrapers to the tiniest ant; the president and PM turned violet and so were the cups, spoons, bread, computers, briefs, stones, books, hair, candies, skittles and everything except for a single Blue Jay Bird who hadn't changed color and stayed the brightest blue. The smartest scientists in the world gathered to figure it out. They did studies and tests and analyzed and evaluated and debated and wrote article after article, but couldn't explain it. Some people said violet was now the most important colour in the country and some thought it of no importance at all because there was too much of it. They discussed, debated, joined clubs to debate and produced movies all aimed at demystifying the  violet country.Blue jay was all this time locked in a cage and people travelled from the far corners of the earth to see her. She nearly turned into a goddess and was always on their lips when they spoke.

Exactly a year after Nikiso had turned violet, people woke up one day and lo!! Everything had turned yellow except the blue jay. For the next two years, exactly on the day Nikiso had turned violet and then yellow, it turned new colours: first orange and then pink. Still the Blue Jay stayed blue, causing ever greater excitement until in the fifth year the whole world turned blue, like blue jay. Because the Blue Jay was a color like everybody and everything else people began to lose interest in her and let her lose so she flied away to some place people never got to know.

Like Nikiso, the righteous ones are so few today. In a world painted a single evil colour; of men who are lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious, gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; God has His blue jay birds moving swiftly spreading the Blue colour of the gospel of Christ. This will happen to a point like in Nikiso where everything will turn blue and the righteous will fly away to be with the Lord. That’s why the bible says, ‘And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.’ (Matthew 24:14)

What then shall we do? Let’s try a colourful ending to this story;"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. (Isaiah 1:18)