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Going Blind and Not Afraid (self.Blind)
submitted by trilluki
I was told when I turned 10 that my eyesight was 20/100 and that I was going to steadily decline through my life. I got the cutest pair of pink glasses with a little jalapeño sticker in the corner that I never took off for whatever reason. I was so surprised that trees had leaves, that I could read from a distance. I loved my new sight.
When I was 16, I was 20/200 and now my eyes wouldn’t work together to produce images. I lost my depth perception and gained double or triple vision. My glasses were $800 and had special lenses that made the world look like a fishbowl. I could see things behind me in the reflection of my glasses and it took a lot of getting used to. I couldn’t drive anymore but that wasn’t really a huge bother, I never thought I would ever drive anyways.
I’m now 21. My eyes are way worse than they were. I can’t see anything close and it’s hard to get around when I see so many of everything all the time. I smile at the sky, the birds. I tell people how beautiful they are, I splurge on the most beautiful things I can be surrounded by. My love for music has become a love of sound. I love the songs of everything around me. There’s a bit of darkness at the edges of my sight.
I’m honestly not afraid.
My husband and children can tell me what they see, I can relearn how beautiful my family is through touching their faces and hearing their voices. I’ll miss my eyes, but there is a beautiful journey ahead of me.
When I was 16, I was 20/200 and now my eyes wouldn’t work together to produce images. I lost my depth perception and gained double or triple vision. My glasses were $800 and had special lenses that made the world look like a fishbowl. I could see things behind me in the reflection of my glasses and it took a lot of getting used to. I couldn’t drive anymore but that wasn’t really a huge bother, I never thought I would ever drive anyways.
I’m now 21. My eyes are way worse than they were. I can’t see anything close and it’s hard to get around when I see so many of everything all the time. I smile at the sky, the birds. I tell people how beautiful they are, I splurge on the most beautiful things I can be surrounded by. My love for music has become a love of sound. I love the songs of everything around me. There’s a bit of darkness at the edges of my sight.
I’m honestly not afraid.
My husband and children can tell me what they see, I can relearn how beautiful my family is through touching their faces and hearing their voices. I’ll miss my eyes, but there is a beautiful journey ahead of me.
Amonwilde 5 points 5y ago
Thanks for writing and sharing your perspective.
Funny enough, I always had a very different feeling about the world and about vision loss. I was never the kind of person to look at sunsets and think about beauty. I always thought, and think, about the world in terms of information and abstract concepts. For me, going blind has been about getting that information in different ways. It seems to me that it would be hard to be into beauty in and of itself and then have to deal with blindness. People generally don't do a great job describing things and so I think you'd have to just find beauty through other senses. Music comes to mind, obviously.
Thank you, I always like to hear how people deal with their blindness, as long as it's productive. You seem to have made some peace with it and I congratulate you.
Funny enough, I always had a very different feeling about the world and about vision loss. I was never the kind of person to look at sunsets and think about beauty. I always thought, and think, about the world in terms of information and abstract concepts. For me, going blind has been about getting that information in different ways. It seems to me that it would be hard to be into beauty in and of itself and then have to deal with blindness. People generally don't do a great job describing things and so I think you'd have to just find beauty through other senses. Music comes to mind, obviously.
Thank you, I always like to hear how people deal with their blindness, as long as it's productive. You seem to have made some peace with it and I congratulate you.
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lardparty 1 points 5y ago
You really inspired me. Thank you.
homerq 1 points 5y ago
What a beautiful soul you have.
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