I'm glad the sky is blue

I'm glad the sky is blue.
A composition I made four years ago.

I'm glad the sky is blue. It's so clean and so clear, our eyes with limited cones and rods could gaze upon. Blue isn't my favorite color per se. But that doesn't mean that I would want the sky to be anything but blue. I remember painting with water colors as a youngster. I would reverse the colors of the clouds in the sky. The sky would be  white and the clouds would be blue and everything else would be colored normally.

I wonder what would it be like if the sky wasn't blue. I don't even know what the sky would look like since colors are just rays of light being reflected off by surfaces and these are detected by the cones and rods in our eyes. Which leads us to the question, what does the sky really look like? What does everything really look like? 

If we had different sets of rods and cones, I'm pretty sure we would see the world differently. Like birds, they have more cones and rods than humans, I'm pretty sure we won't look at the sky the same way. There are even animals that have different sets of rods and cones in their eyes, like cats and dogs. 

Animals live in harmony without ever debating about the color of the sky. You don't see fish arguing with the cats of how they see the sky. You don't see animals attacking other animals because they think how they see things are right. Unlike humans, they are able to respect one another's views of how they see things, because it's in the way they are.

Humans should start respecting each other's views. We are the only species that fight each other because of different deities, different views, different rods and cones. I think the world will become a better place if we don't argue about religion, if we don't argue about gender roles, about politics, about philosophies.

We are the species with the most complex reasoning among all sentient beings yet we overcomplicate things and fail to live in peace and harmony. I think the world will become a better place if we tend to be more accepting of each other's set of rods and cones.