Come See About Me

It's sometimes called our most importance sense. It allows us to read, to see, to preview. It enables us to be turned on and turned off, to be intrigued, surprised, and disappointed. Our vision is both a blessing and a curse. We use our eyes to help us decide whether we look good in a sweater and therefore whether or not to buy it. We use our eyes to see if what we've said has pissed someone off and thus to see if what we're saying now is making up for it. We also use our eyes to determine if we're going to let that person buy us a drink, regardless of whether or not they're interesting. We use our eyes to make friends, sometimes ignoring that we may not have a whole lot in common.

I often think the world would be a better place if we didn't have vision. I mean, literally, let's think about it. We're all pretty shallow as it is. We judge people on how they look and we in turn get judged. We often hear ourselves say, "I wouldn't be caught dead in that," and "Do you know what I would look like if..." and let's not forget "I can't be seen with (insert name)!" We have written people completely off because on how they look, albeit it a potential mate, friend, or customer/client.

Yes, the world would be a better place if we didn't have vision. We wouldn't rely so much on our looks to get around. We could focus more on merit and hard work since we won't have that Colgate smile to charm people. We would learn to be more eloquent and descriptive with our language since we can't be lazy and just look at something to see what it's like. I wouldn't have to wait until Tony falls asleep to go and sneak that extra cookie in the dark. I could cancel my gym membership because I would never know what Cristiano Ronaldo's stomach looks like and kill myself trying to achieve the same.

Now my wallet is getting bigger? Okay, I'm liking this blind thing.

If I all of a sudden got a pimple on a night we were going out, I wouldn't freak out about being ostracized and cast to the dark corners of the freak section of my local watering hole.

But then again, I do get pretty happy when I come home and see my dog so excited to see me that he can't stay still. I really enjoy staring at the color usage and brushstrokes of Georgie O'Keefe. Not to mention, some people are just really really nice to look at. And now that I think about it, if I were blind, I wouldn't go to the gym or work out for the sake of my health. So really, shallowness has saved my health. Thank god I can see how I look in certain clothes, otherwise I wouldn't stop at just that one cookie in the dark while Tony's asleep. Shallow or not, vision - a blessing and a curse. A cross to bare. Kind of like my award winning smile, but then again, if you were blind, you couldn't see that.

:)