A Dull Evening

I always loved to click sunsets. The orange hues of the sky coupled with the chirping of the birds fascinated me always. But it is often said that if you look forward to a dull evening, you are in fact growing old. But isn’t growing old also mean gaining stability. The youth stage in a man’s life is always turbulent. Even if you look at the choice of colours used by the marketers targeting the youth, they are vibrant and in your face which demand immediate attention. Well my choice of dull evening may represent a inner longing for a well balanced life. An evening not only signifies a setting sun but a satisfaction, after having achieved something humongous materialistically or otherwise. A man’s life can be compared with a day. If the early morning pale colours denote the beginnings of life such infancy and its purity, the forenoons and afternoons comprise the youth stage – very bright, and the time of the day and life where everyone sweat it out, and the evenings can be compared to the late middle age and post retirement time period comprised of the time when a man rolls back onto the arm chair and becomes nostalgic. That is the time when a sense of satisfaction, for the works done or not done looms over. It is the stage of contentment and completion. The night signifies death and the transition into a new day, a new beginning.