Friday, June 27, 2014

Colors - or lack of

This is a color wheel.  All of the colors that you can imagine.

Our lives are full of these colors, you can see them almost everywhere.  Colors cheer things up, arouse our senses, stimulate moods and feelings. We see color in nature, in art, in the food we eat, in the clothing we wear, our phones, carpeting, wallpaper, and the list goes on, with one exception:  the cars we drive.  Lately, I’ve really been noticing, seeing hundreds of vehicles on my commute each day, that almost of the cars & trucks nowadays are black, white, or various shades of grey.  What is with the automobile manufacturers? Do they have no imagination anymore?  (They’ve already shown us this in the shapes of their cars – there’s very little originality there anymore).   Now they are seemingly trying to take the color out of our world. 
My wife and I own vehicles that are green and blue, respectively.  Of course, these vehicles are 12-17 years old, manufactured back in the days when paint colors actually existed in auto manufacturing.
Hopefully, the next generation will put color back on the road.