I was sitting at a stop sign on my way to work, no more unusual than any other day. I was watching people fail to stop at the sign or brake far, too late.
Now, normally, this would cause me to want to write about driver safety and education. This incident got me thinking about the stop sign and the colour red.
How exactly did we come to use this colour and why is it so important? Stop signs, sirens, stop signs there’s plenty of daily uses of the vibrant colour. According to some articles I came across red is the first colour that humans mastered.
I presume it was easy to master as our blood is red, likely one of the first colours humans see.
Red also symbolizes power, love, passion, confidence, dominance, and attraction, all the trademarks of a mediocre Hallmark movie.
As I’ve just learned, red is also a personality type. I didn’t realize that colours were indicative of someone’s personality.
The colour red when associated with someone’s personality is a sign of them being outgoing and extroverted. It also holds significance in religion, the blood of Christ and the fires of hell were both red.
The red chakra, or the root, typically represents being grounded, however, reports of it’s true meaning are conflicting. In modern day, red is associated with love, the heart, blood and gang activity in some areas.
Having said all of that, stop at stop signs, Lloydminster, or I may end up down another rabbit hole learning about another colour.
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