Relative Something

Fun for Friday. First, find four faces from forever for fresh friendship flavored familiarity. Freely flail five flexed fingers feigning frightful fits filled full from fluttering fanaticism. Fraternize freely foisted floundering fists fixed fruitfully following flowing flowers from fall festivals forever.

Forget it.

Have you ever noticed how letters and numbers can hold the impression of a specific color in your mind? For me, the letter F looks like this:

After spending many adult hours looking at blocks and magnetic boards of letters and numbers with my infant children as we exercised their amazing minds to learn, it struck me why it would be logical to picture these as associated with a certain color. I have taken a few informal polls to learn the variety of color associations friends have for letters and numbers. I’m of a mind that with enough research we could probably identify which kids played with the same devices in their formative years based on their color associations.

However, there are a few situations that complicate it. New things come along to disrupt our initial associations. One in particular that impacted me was a fascination I developed later in my childhood with color-by-number drawings. That re-oriented my color/number associations, for sure.

If you think about it, one of the most significant things to mess with our early impressions developed of colors of letters must be learning to read books. Every dang letter suddenly becomes black. Just plain black. Isn’t that just packed full of symbolism for a variety of situations related to moving from the colors of our innocence to the structure of life as an adult?