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Month: February 2019

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The Role of Vision In Our Daily Life

Our eyes are a gift and yet we don’t seem to treat them like one. Maybe we’re just so used to having them that they don’t come to our attention very often. It’s like a watch, you see. Imagine yourself putting one on. For some time, you’re conscious about the existence of the watch. You can feel it touching your skin; you feel it gripping your wrist. But after some time, you seem to forget everything about it. And I do mean totally. You’d suddenly wash your hands with gushing water and be like “Oh my! My watch is getting wet!” I think it’s kind of the same phenomenon. The longer we are exposed to things – be it an object, a situation, or a person – the less conscious we become of it. Since we’ve had our eyes since birth and we literally can’t see them all the time (unless we’re looking at a mirror and who does that all day right?), then maybe we have forgotten that they have always been there in the first place. Our vision has become so natural and inculcated into our being that we fail to recognize their individual health.

Well, that is up until we lose it.

Close your eyes for a second. Shut it real tight. On second thought, switch off the light in the room before you do; make sure it’s pitch dark. Then, shut your eyes. What do you see? Look real hard and tell me what you see. You see nothing, right? A flight of your imagination may be but in the end, you see nothing. There’s no light, no color, no figures and shadows. It’s an endless abyss of nothingness.

That is what it’s like to lose your vision (read this). That is what it’s …