ESL Blogs

    Do you know what the colors of time are? When the seasons change, each has its own featured color. All tiny green leaves are growing and tell you that spring has come. Summer arrives with golden sunshine and red flowers, and in Vietnam it is called flower for students, because it blossoms just in summer and it warns of the end of the long school year. Yellow falling leaves are an absolute sign of autumn, the most beautiful season of the year with little cold breezes and thin fog. Early in the morning, you can go down the street and see a shower of leaves dancing in strong winds, what a magnificent and sorrowful scene ... And winter is quietly crawling in with drifting thick fog, I wonder if it is grey or white or some shade between?

   Then time has plenty of other colors.

   When you were a little kid, living within your parents' arms, leading an innocent life full of joy, you were eager to discover the world, had a lot of fantasies and dreams and wished you could fly to the moon one day… So your life was full of pink.

   When you reach your best moments in life, first love, first kiss and first baby… your life is overwhelmed with vitality and happiness, health and hope... yellow is what I'm thinking about.

   When you wake up to realize that you have grown older and remember the good old days, old friends, old stories... the sorrow and grief, happiness and joy in your life and the things and people that have gone away and never come back, time seems to be colored violet.

   And one day, when the time comes, you lie in bed waiting for death to come and you think you have no regrets, because you lived a full life, and always tried your best with the things you did, the silvery flow of time is endless but now it is your moment, the moment with no color...

   For you what is the color of time?