Thursday, February 3, 2011

Dear Helen Keller


Yeah, sorry about making fun of you all those times....not really....but today i feel like I experienced a little of what you had to go through.  Today my glasses broke, and for someone who is optically challenged like myself this is not a good thing.  Now my glasses broke when I took them off of my head, like the arm totally broke off and the screws are missing.  Cue eye appointment tomorrow.  Now for someone who is used to being able to see, being partially blind is a difficult task.  It was hard for me to peruse the gossip websites this morning without the gift of sight.  Now I could read them, but I had to get really close and I did not even attempt to watch television because that would have just been a bunch of blobs with sound playing behind it.  Now Helen, I feel like I was like you today because it was also weird for me to just move around my house and do everyday tasks. I was not bumping into furniture or eating food off of other people's plates or anything but I feel like I had a very trying morning.  Do you know how hard it is to straighten your hair when you cannot see all the bumps and creases that may be missed of left behind? No Helen you dont because you did not have that type of technology back then.  All you had was a nanny and sign language.  But being without one of my senses makes me a little more empathetic to you as well as Daredevil (you know that blind superhero).  I will try to cut back on my jokes about your inability to see, but your deafness, that is still fair game.

Peace & Love
-K

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