colours

Once, Asima asked me , "How horrible it would be; don't you think? If there were no colours in this world?"
"We wouldn't know," I replied.
And she gave me that look. DUH!!
" I meant, if there had been no colours , we wouldn't have known. Wouldn't be horrible then would it ?".
My own reply has always intrigued me. Ironically, i wasn't thinking about how 'horrible' it would be. Instead, i was wondering about her perspective of it being unpleasant. To me, it didnt really make much of a difference either way.