GONE BLIND

Thank God for the sense of sight. It's great, I love it, I can't do it without it. But wait, there are over 40,000,000 blind people in the world, at least that's what Wikipedia says. But anyway, those people make it; they live with the condition that seems impossible for me to live with. What's the point anyway, how did I end up blind in the first place? Well, as the assignment said: "Pick one of your 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell) and spend at least 3 consecutive hours one day without that sense. Document how you took the sense away and what your experience was like without that experience."

Well, as the picture above depicts, I took a piece of cloth, tied it around my eyes and BAM I lost my eyesight just like that. First I would like to be dead honest, I didn't go for the full 3 hours(first, because, that's too much precious time wasted because I really can't even do anything while blind). I walked around confidently since I knew my way around the house anyway. I realized I couldn't use my computer or cellphone. I tried to unlock my phone to take a picture of my blind state(yes I keep my phone locked for security/privacy reasons, lol.). I struggled for a while before asking my brother for help. Only problem, I can't give him the password to my phone so how is he supposed to help me? It wasn't too long before I put the phone down and decided maybe I should go use the bathroom. Well, that was too easy, I do it every night, walk to to the bathroom eyes closed, locate the toilet with both of my legs to make sure I am standing right in the center of it, and pee, walk back to the room eyes still closed. So, that wasn't a big deal. 

Well, back in my room, I thought the best way I could spend the rest of the time was listen to music and lay in bed. I know my way around the keyboard on my macbook, and since I already had iTunes opened and in my favorite playlist, I just held down the [apple key + tab] to cycle through the open programs and asked my brother to let me know when I am on the iTunes logo. I got in bed and listened to the music play. Thank God I still had my sense of hearing. Well, my father walked in the room and saw me laying on the bed looking stupid with a piece of clothes tied around my eyes and music playing, and suggested to my brother to turn the lights off so I can go to sleep because I am probably very tired. I just kept quiet as if I heard nothing, and I could hear my brother telling him I was not tired at all. That's all my father needed to hear and he left; me and my brother giggled. A minute later, I got up and decided I was sick of being blind. 

This experience just makes me thankful nothing less and nothing more. I don't know what sense can replace the sense of sight. Things are perfect the way they are, at least perfect for me and the billions of people with the sense of sight. But I mean, what sense would I create to replace sight? Answer is I am not bright enough. Sounds like I am just too lazy to think of a great idea, but hey, you try and tell me where you end up. But you know, a sense of creativity wouldn't be so bad. To be able to produce creativity and notice creativity anytime needed in all aspects and areas of life. If we had that sense, we wouldn't need to take this class. Not that I have anything against this class of course. I am actually loving this class so much that I showed up to class wednesday not knowing that it was a Monday only class. oops.