Once, or several times, upon a time, I lived in pained numbness, not mere melancholy, weary of the surrounding and somewhat engulfing world.

Human experience has its highs and lows. And we tend to, occasionally, reflect on what we once were desperate to escape from.

Maple leaves and northern snow, reflected upon flags

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For the most part, I am a man who tends to be numb to colors. But the other day, while in the snow, a national flag of Canada came into my sight, and the dually colorful configuration on it struck me, somewhat surreally. I did a double take. It is red and white.

Coincidentally, in terms of colors, the university flag of McGill U. is also red and white.

My unverified guess is that all those flag color constellations trace back to that maple leaves are red and northern snow is white.

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