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everything until it turned the whole world into a giant rainbow.
However, there are some things that are just out of your control, and
creating rainbows with wishes was one of them.
Grandmother also liked to talk about the Day the Colors Went
Away. I’ve learned about the Day the Colors Went Away in school
since it’s the beginning of the Colorless Era. Even though I have
learned about the Day the Colors Went Away and the Colorless Era
numerous times (grades 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th), it is always a lot
more exciting to hear it from somebody who actually lived it.
Grandmother would tell me that she was just seventeen, the same
age as I am now, the Day the Colors Went Away. She recalls waking
up and thinking she had gone blind. Where did the colors go, she kept
asking herself, where did all he colors go? She was then convinced the
she had gone insane because colors couldn’t simply vanish. Could they?
She journeyed downstairs to find that her family could not see the
colors and her neighbors couldn’t see them either. Everyone was
starting to panic.
“Where did the colors go?” they asked. But no one knew.
This phenomenon was worldwide and all over the news. People
around the globe could not see any color. Even the colors in some of
the world’s most famous paintings, were gone. It was like someone had
sucked all the colors out of the world. No one could figure it out, not
even the brightest scientists had a clue.
People hoped it was just temporary. They thought the colors
would come back soon. When they didn’t, mass hysteria broke out. So
began one of the worst downward spirals in all of history. Depression
and suicide rates dramatically increased, and a lot of riots broke out. It
started to rain much more frequently, and it was almost always cloudy.
People were a lot more negative toward each other. A lot of people
checked themselves into mental institutions because they suffered
from nervous breakdowns. They just couldn’t cope with reality.
For a long while, people were angry and confused. Eventually, like
everything else, people got used to it. Now people take the fact that
everything is colorless for granted. The fact that all colors had faded
away became something of a legend.