Blue
by diana_ielts7 on November 19, 2007
in students
My associations with the blue colour are the sky, cold feet and sea.
Through the eyes of my imagination I can see the endlessly blue sky. It represents hope, peacefulness and belief – a strong belief in God, his goodness, care and mystery at the same time. Then I think how I feel blue. Cool, cold – just the opposite of hot red. I have cold feet every night, which might sound trivial when juxtaposed with the sky, but nevertheless it is factual. Although I do my best to protect myself by wearing warm socks, pyjamas and sleeping under two blankets, the phenomenon is inevitable in wintertime. Afterwards, I recollect a pleasant dream I had three days ago. I was swimming in the Baltic Sea at night. The water was pleasantly warm and dark, must have been blue during the sunny day though. No cold feet, only overwhelming deep relaxation and sense of freedom.
In conclusion, the colour blue has various meanings to me. It simultaneously symbolizes my attitude towards God, the physical ailment and reduction of tension.
When I think of blue I see my holiday in Croatia. One day I went on a trip to one of the islands in The Adriatic Sea. My destination was the peak of the highest mountain. There is a castle on the top. It was possible to drive there but I climbed the mountain. When I got there I saw an amazing view of the sea and other islands around. The water was very different from other seas. I had never seen so many shades of blue before. I was able to see them because I was wearing polarized sunglasses.
The blue colour remains me about sailing. Everytime I think about the blue I have one image in my mind.
“It is holiday. It is warm, sunny and windy. The endless sea is azure and the sky is cloudless. I am on a yacht with a couple of friends. I can easily hear sails slatting in the wind- it is the only noise, excluding lough of my friends. Our yacht is slamming the waves and we are having the most joyful moment in life.”
This image is, for me, connected with particular emotions. Joy, freedom, optimism, passion- all of them are positive. As positive as positive is the blue colour.
Like Jarek, I associate blue with my holiday in Croatia. I was there two years ago, sailing with my family between the islands. The summer was very hot, as usual in Croatia. We had a cloudless blue sky above us and crystal sea water around in the shades of blue I had never seen before.
The most incredible feelling during that cruise was sailing to a really small island called Bisevo. It is the closest island to the Italian coast. There is a famous place inside the rock called Blue Cave. To get there we had to change our boat for a smaller one, which we had on our yacht. It wasn’t easy to get to the cave, there were really big waves at sea. For most of the day it’s dark inside the cave, because there is no any hole in it to let the sunlight. But between eleven and twelve o’clock in the morning, some sun gets inside through an underwater corridor between the rocks.
When we got there, we felt as if we were sandwiched between the water and rock, because the cave wasn’t high inside. But the colour of the cave was really silver-blue. We could see that corridor deep down the sea, because the water was as clear as crystal. That was an incredible and amazing experience.