What colour is your emotion?

 While taking my usual morning stroll and doing my daily stretching routine on the west facing upper terrace of our apartment today, I casually looked at, in passing, the clothes that had been put out to dry in the unpredictable early morning monsoon sunshine. An interesting fact of physics that we had read in school crossed my mind, reinforced by the science syllabus of my son at school. The colour of an object that we see around us is in fact, the only colour that it cannot absorb. The rest of the other colours are absorbed by it.

Pondering this fact, I was intrigued by a slightly different albeit related chain of thought. Could it be that our moods consist of one emotion which dominates the others by suppressing them? In short, the other emotions are there but not sensed because of that one prevailing, all consuming autocratic one? For example, anger. When we are angry with someone, is it not true that our other or past emotions towards that person get suppressed by the all consuming current passion of anger?

I'm going to hold onto this train of thought for a bit. Does it not imply that if we allow ourselves some physical and temporal distance, maybe our other emotions towards that person will abate and be diluted/conditioned by emotions evoked by previous circumstances? That would be a useful psychological self-help tool to calm ourselves and mellow the intensity of our negative feelings in generally most circumstances, maybe.