Red, Green, Blue

"Darkness, I can see only darkness." I answered when questioned by Suresh; my doctor.

 

"That's because you are sitting in darkness." Suresh called out from somewhere infront of me, I couldnt make out from exactly where.

 

I heard a switch being flipped on and a dull stream of light bathed my face. I was sitting in a dark room, I could faintly make out shadows but was unsure if those shadows were really things. Slowly the images started to form clearly, layers of distortion fading away from them, converging to form solid bodies with definite shapes. Although it was a little dark I could make out the room and the things inside it.

 

"What is different Ganesh?" Suresh asked sitting on my left calmly with a notepad in his hands, adjusting his glasses.

 

"I don't know something is different." I answered perplexed. Something was bothering me. I looked at my hands. My hands were looking different, they weren't different exactly but something was bothering me. I looked at Suresh sitting at my side. He too was looking very different from the last time I had seen him.

 

"What happened to you?" I asked.

 

"Why, is something wrong?" He asked ignoring my question, his face looking more radiant than the last time I had seen it.

 

"Something is wrong, something is definitely wrong..." 

 

"...but I dont know why things are better. More beautiful." I continued as I kept looking at things around me. Things around me had somehow changed into something better. It felt like an entirely new world had suddenly come infront of me that earlier I was not able to witness, its beauty was breathtaking. How did it come into existense? Was it there from before? But if it was there why was it not visible to me?

 

"OK, Ganesh I will perform a few tests and then you can go." Suresh said, his eyes fixed at me while mine wandering everywhere else in my range of sight.

 

"Sure,.." I answered to Suresh, hesitantly as my line of sight traced back to my hands.

 

"I will switch on the lights of the room and you say me what is different." Suresh said and clicked the switch he was holding. The whole room was flooded with a bright light. It was the most amazing moment in my life. The things around me as mundane as a pencil that was on the writing pad looked different. The white marble tile glistened in the light and on a table right infront of me were kept the most amazing looking flowers that I had ever seen in my life.

 

Beside the flowers a gift wrapped in the most beautiful paper, I had ever witnessed in my life. This was so mesmerizing. Everything around me looked as if made of something entirely new something which was missing in my life for a long time. I felt that somehow this things were more complete than before when I had seen them.

 

"Suresh, have you put me on some kind of medication?" I asked in a playful tone, still looking at the things around me.

 

The metal scissors and the bandages that had been cut only a few moments before were looking so good. It shouldn't had looked that way I thought to myself.

 

"Why is everything around me so mesmerizingly beautiful? Is there something wrong with me, but if something is wrong I dont want it to be right ever again. I wanted this to be real was it all reallly real, for even in my dreams I had never witnessed such spectacle of the ordinary."

 

"Ha ha ha, no Ganesh, I have put you under no medication." Suresh said watching me with a smile that he tried to hide.

 

Good god, even his otherwise normal face looked so great. Heavenly, the Gods would be similiar to his face I thought.

 

For sometime I stared into his face but then averted my eyes. I looked around for everything I saw made me feel only incredible, the floor, checkered in alternate black and white were the only thing that I felt hadn't changed.

 

As I traced around the room, I looked at the window, a faint image of mine reflected from its glasses. For a moment I thought someone is sitting on the other side but in the very next moment I knew that it was my reflection. I couldnt look anywhere, I got up joltingly and walked towards the window.

 

"Where are you going Ganesh?" Suresh asked trying to stop me.

 

I was hardly listening to Suresh, I walked straight towards the window, my eyes fixed at my own moving reflection approaching me which seemed as much or even more excited to see me than I was to see it. As I went even more closer to the window my image started to fade lighter and the images of the outside started overlapping my reflection. I still walked towards the window transfixed by the semi transparent glass which for a moment showed me like I had never seen myself.

 

I reached for the window and opened it. The scene outside was increadible. I could hardly beleive myself, the sky looked different but infinitely more beautiful than I could ever imagine in my wildest fantasies, the grass on the ground infront of me looked different everything looked different but this difference instead of bothering me gave a feeling of intense, overwhelming joy. I now could no longer control my emotions, a tear rolled down my cheek.

 

I turned around "What is this magic? Suresh, please tell me what did you do to me, What ever you did is the best thing that has ever happened to me." I said, happy tears rolling down my cheeks.

 

"Come here and I will show you." he said.

 

"You will show me,.... show me what??" I asked as my right foot started off towards Suresh involuntarily, my mind eager to knw the answers ordering my feet to go towards where it would find the solution.

 

As I walked towards Suresh he had three pieces of the most exquisite paper I had seen.

 

"Tell me what do you see Ganesh?" he said pointing out towards the first peice of the most beautiful paper I had ever seen.

 

I looked at it, no words coming out of my mouth as I tried hard to speak. But then my eyes caught hold of those flowers at the table; beautiful, exquisite flowers from God only knows where Suresh had got those. Then one thing striked me. There was something similiar between these two; the flower and the paper. So I bent forward towards the table and picked it up and as I picked the flower and felt a prick, a thorn from the flower's stem had pricked my finger. A drop of blood trickled out and dropped to the floor along with the flower as my fingers loosened grip around it. I looked at my blood, it looked different too.

 

"The peice of paper, the flowers petals, my blood, they have the same color." I said almost without thinking.

 

"And why is my blood not red. Why is my blood the same color as those, they are not red?" I asked.

 

Suresh finally unleashed that smile which he was hiding from me the whole time. His mouth spread to a grin, white glistening teeth.

 

"They all are red Ganesh; the paper, the flower, your blood all of them." He said

 

"What do you mean they are red, I have seen red and its not red." I argued, here let me show you red I said as I searched for something which was red in color, I looked around but couldnt find anything.

 

As I was searching Suresh reached out to his left trouser pocket and picked another piece of paper. "Is this red?" he asked.

 

"Yes, yes this is red." I said nodding my head as I took the peice in my hands.

 

He reached out to his another pocket and picked another piece of paper. "And is this green ?" he asked me almost mocking.

 

"Yes, yes it's green. What do you think I am dumb?" I said as I fetched it from his hand.

 

"Now compare the green and red paper you are holding." he said pointing with both his hands towards my hands. I looked down again at both of them and it hit me like a ton of bricks they were the same color.

 

He continued. "Ganesh, this is red and this is green and this is blue. " he said pointing out at that exquisite pieces of paper.

 

"You were colorblind from birth Ganesh and so you never knew the difference. But not anymore." he said finally his smile glued to his face.

 

Reviews

[Miles W.]

Wow. You weren't kidding when you said I would enjoy this. I loved the suspense you put into this up until the big reveal of what is going on. Very fun read. Thank you sir.

[New Theory]

I am glad you enjoyed it :). Thanks for reading it.

[Vidya Bacchus]

Very interesting Theory a story like this ,on this topic, I have never read.Most excellent

[New Theory]

Thank you Vidya :), I should had put a disclaimer though: I know that Colorblindness is presently incurable, but I think someday it will be. I was actually inspired to write about this by thinking about so many wonderful things in nature that we don't really see or can't see but when we see them, it makes life even more worth while.

[Mirna]

Your creativity in writing stories is absolutely wonderful!! and you create good imagery too, well done. you really should keep going :) great way to end my day, thank you.

[New Theory]

Thank you Mirna, I hope to rewrite this and make this better, glad you liked it. :)