The gift of eyesight

I don’t know what I’d do without my eyesight. People who are blind are courageous. Learning to navigate the world without eyesight must be one of the most difficult things a human can accomplish. I am very grateful for my eyesight. The ability to look all around me and see clearly, I don’t take for granted. Sometimes I find myself nervous and fearing that I might lose my eyesight in an accident. In general, I am confident in my ability to stay safe and keep my eyesight.

Good health is a blessing and protecting health is very important. Learning to walk with a cane designed for blind people would be a big challenge to accomplish. Learning to read brail would be a big challenge to accomplish. Challenges are part of life and every person faces challenges in their lives unique to them.

My guess is blind people learn to trust what they don’t see. They learn to be confident in what they feel. Losing eyesight at any age would be devastating.

I’m glad that US Citizens who are born blind and become blind later in their lives are afforded SSDI payments to help them live their best lives in peace and comfort and safety. I’m glad that some of the taxes I pay for work I do goes to help blind people live their best lives.

The world although safe and secure in many regions includes regions that are not safe for human life. Threatening weather conditions are often the cause of loss of life. Many of the problems that threaten human life are caused by humans.

The ability to see with my eyes is a gift. Sometimes incidents happen in life that are scary to see and watch, scary to read about, scary to hear about, scary to be there in a dangerous situation. Nonetheless eyesight is a gift and as a human with good eyesight sometimes it requires courage to look and listen and learn what is happening.

This is about being human and facing fears. Ignoring negative things and incidents and problems doesn’t make them go away. Rather looking with my eyes at what happens at home and in my community and in the world is a gift and sometimes difficult to witness.

Everyone makes a difference. What you see is important, it might not always be what you wished to see and that is life. Life is worth living and life is precious. It’s important to speak up and share what you see with people. The phrase, “If you see something say something” has both positive and negative connotations. Sharing what you see with people strengthens community and helps people by looking out for danger to help people avoid it.

Helping people feels good. Strengthening community feels good. Life is good. Make the most of it.