Favourite colous
In infant school, "What is your favourite colour?" was a favoured conversational starter. For all I know it still is. It was, however, puzzlingly ineffective when talking with adults. Some of them didn't even seem to know what their favourite colour was. Follow up questions revealed that some of them didn't have a least favourite colour either. And some of adults gave different answers each time you asked. I was used to people changing their favourite colours, but with my contemporaries that was quite big decision, made with due deliberate and not lightly reversed. Adults seem to change their minds easily. Some of them said complicated things, such as "Well it depends what it is."
Now I've tended to give the same answer to this question since I was 6, which is that I like green. But since about eleven I have tended to qualify my answer. I like bluey-green and "true" green a great deal. Jade green and pine green are favourites and I'm not so keen on yellowy greens. In fact moss green and lime green are some way below most shades of purple and blue in "liking" terms, near the bottom of the list along with orange. Last weekend, though, I found myself thinking about the colour of newly unfurling leaves. A lot of them are yellowish-green, almost lime, and some have red or bronze tints. And for the time being at least, I think that my favourite colour - for a leaf.
Have I somewhat belatedly grown up?
Now I've tended to give the same answer to this question since I was 6, which is that I like green. But since about eleven I have tended to qualify my answer. I like bluey-green and "true" green a great deal. Jade green and pine green are favourites and I'm not so keen on yellowy greens. In fact moss green and lime green are some way below most shades of purple and blue in "liking" terms, near the bottom of the list along with orange. Last weekend, though, I found myself thinking about the colour of newly unfurling leaves. A lot of them are yellowish-green, almost lime, and some have red or bronze tints. And for the time being at least, I think that my favourite colour - for a leaf.
Have I somewhat belatedly grown up?