GREEN is colorful in 21th century. It comes out from business topics, geography terms, zoology, human activities, politics, and climate. What do you understand as you hear, feel or see Green? I would like to open a discussion, concerning the metaphorical meanings of this boisterous word.

GREEN first of all is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of 520–570 nanometres, Wiki says. It is not a primary one, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan. Nothing in this world is just black or white and all depends of us. If today you feel blue, maybe you will drink lemonade and make your day a bit greener.

GREEN is an additive primary color. On the HSV color wheel, its complement is magenta. On a color wheel based on traditional color theory its complement is red.

GREEN as word is closely related to the Old English verb growan, “to grow”. It depends on us how much would our color grow or our efforts to change the way of things happening around us. No matter if big or small company, NGO or a private house, every possible direction depends on human hands.

GREEN is used to describe plants or the ocean. These are all the immortal in their regeneration earth creations and power, which influence to the human kind and world changes. These are also the things, which make us smile and be afraid of. We can not stop them, but we can change at least a small part of their path.

GREEN describes inexperienced, jealous, or sick person. The word greenhorn refers to a novice. This means that everything has also a bad side of, and symbolizes the planet, which could be demolished, destructed. The depravity of Adam and Eve.

GREEN can communicate safety to proceed, as in traffic lights, which are so loved in Germany.

“GREEN around the gills” is a key phrase used to describe a person who looks ill.

GREEN is a slang term for money, among other things. Although we would like to determine the main meaning, we can`t run away from the truth. Money turns the world around. We must know how to handle green in order not to lose more of it.

GREEN are some minerals like the emerald, which is colored so by its chromium content. Inside all of us, there is something precious, just like it. It depends on us how we would like to show it out – deep, dark, tender, ominous or poisonous.

GREEN appear animals such as frogs, lizards, and other reptiles and amphibians, fish, insects, and birds. This is because of a mixture of layers of blue and green coloring on their skin. Even if one looks vile-tempered, we must give him a chance. You never know what is inside him.

GREEN, most traditionally, is used in many folklores and literatures, to symbolize nature and its embodied attributes, namely - of life, fertility, and rebirth. It was symbolic of resurrection and immortality in Ancient Egypt, the god Osiris was depicted as green-skinned. It is often used to describe foliage and the sea, and has become a symbol of environmentalism. Someone who works well with plants is said to have a green thumb or green fingers. A company is said to be greenwashing if they advertise positive environmental practices to cover up environmental destruction.

GREEN`s largest contributor in nature is chlorophyll. This is the chemical by which plants photosynthesize. We must thank them and help them to continue saving the ozone layer of our planet. Many creatures have adapted to their green environments by taking on a green hue themselves as camouflage. Among them are also humans, like the hunters in the 19th century, who were wearing particularly the shade called hunter green. In the 20th century most of them began wearing the color olive drab, a shade of green, instead of hunter green. Everyone has secrets, but everyone knows how to unveil the mask in front of special people. Some of them are dangerous, some of them helpful. The camouflage can be referenced to the fear of the change.

GREEN symbolizes hope and growth in some cultures. In others it is associated with death, sickness, envy, or the devil. The most common associations, are found in its ties to nature. Islam venerates the color, as it expects paradise to be full of lush greenery. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth for its connections to nature. It all depends on the personality`s vision. We all have different perception and this is for good. As one pessimist told me “Everyone is unique, just like you.”

GREEN is the flag of Libya. It consists of a simple green field with no other characteristics, which makes it the only national flag with just one color and no design, insignia. Green is one of the three colors of Pan-Africanism. South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Togo, Guinea, Benin, and Zimbabwe use it on their flags. Green in these cases represents the natural richness of Africa. Many flags of the Islamic world are green, considered sacred in Islam. The flag of Hamas as well as the one of Iran symbolizes this ideology. In the run-up to Iran's 2009 presidential election, the reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi chose green as his campaign color, and it became pervasive among his supporters during the campaign and the post-election protests. Green is the lowest of the three bands on the flag of India. It stands for fertility and prosperity. Earlier Indian flags had contained a similar green band representing Islam, the second-most predominant religion in India.

GREEN is called vert (French for "green") in heraldry. 14th century documents describe vert as a symbol of "jolliness and youth, but also of beauty and shame" as well as of death. Vert is used for the flags of Wales and Hungary, and is the basis for the Brazilian flag as well. Other countries using green in their flags use it to represent their country's lush vegetation, as in the flag of Jamaica and hope in the future, as in the flag of Nigeria. There is green on our (Bulgarian) flag too. All of that means that no matter how different nations over the globe are, there is always something which is common among them.

GREEN is a symbol of Ireland, which is often referred to as the “Emerald Isle”. Green is a strong trend in the Irish holiday St. Patrick’s Day.

GREEN is the color of recent political groups, which want it to symbolize the environmental protection and social justice. They consider themselves part of the Green movement, some naming themselves Green parties. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green, or environmentally friendly, products. Unfortunately not all of them are that successfully.

GREEN is known to have signified witchcraft, devilry and evil for its association with faeries and spirits of early English folklore. It also had an association with decay and toxicity. Actor Bela Lugosi wore green-hued makeup for the role of Dracula in the 1927–28 Broadway stage production. A green tinge in the skin is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness. Green combined with gold, is seen as representing the fading of youth. In the Celtic tradition, green was avoided in clothing for its superstitious association with misfortune and death. It is thought to be an unlucky color in British and British-derived cultures, where green cars, wedding dresses, and theater costumes are all the objects of superstition. Spider-Man villains were often colored green to represent a contrast to the hero's red. In Far East cultures the color green is often used as a symbol of sickness and/or nausea. Maybe that is the root for the Chinese term for cuckold - "to wear a green hat", according to which it is extremely rare to see any Chinese wearing a green hat.

GREEN is alive in stories of the medieval period, representing love and the natural desires of man. In Persian and Sudanese poetry, dark-skinned women, called "green" women may be eroticized.

I would like to wear my green hat with the green in my pocket in the green of my life next to me on the way to the greenest landscape ever seen. I fixed the green in my mind.

What about you?