Today I set myself the challenge of responding to the following statement: Topic(s) this week: Option one and topic to choose: Blindness.
Imagine that you suddenly go blind between one second and the next. How would your life change physically and emotionally? What would you miss and do you think there would be benefits? How do you think you would deal with the loss of vision?
I took a cloth and folded it to cover my eyes for a moment, I asked my brother to watch over me and take care of me in this experiment.
The first thing I noticed was the fear I felt of not knowing what we had in front of us, no matter how long I lived in a house for more than 22 years, I was afraid to walk and fall due to colliding with a table or some dangerous object, since not seeing We don't know what we can face, taking into account that I lost my sight from one moment to another.
After trying to walk I began to use my hands as a guide by being able to touch the walls I felt in a certain way guided to know where I was going, but eventually I was close to hitting a refrigerator, a metal table and I hit my little finger of the foot with a small piece of furniture that my hand could not touch but my foot could.
If I felt totally disoriented with 5 minutes doing this little exercise, with that information I imagined the rest of my life.
I came to the conclusion that there are certain aspects of benefit in the long term, such as:
-The power to sharpen the ear.
-The power to sharpen the sense of touch.
-The power to sharpen the palate.
-The power to sharpen the sense of orientation.
Although losing sight from one moment to the next would definitely be something totally chaotic for me, I feel that my first reaction would be fear, I would have stress, I would touch my face a thousand times to find out what happened, I would think of the thousand factors that they made me lose my sight, thoughts would come to my mind like not seeing my father's smile anymore as well as the face of my boyfriend, my mother and my brother, without thinking about the great sadness that would come to my heart for not being able to see my other loved ones or simply not seeing a landscape, not seeing people walking aimlessly or following their day-to-day routine, I could no longer see the waves of the sea, their enveloping movement, I could not even see my face or the clothes I would wear every day, it would break my heart to know that if I had children I would not see their faces: the color of their eyes, the color of their hair or their smile.
And I feel that it would be somewhat frustrating not to be able to walk on the street again right away for fear of going down an avenue and that a car does not stop in time to brake.
I say this from my own experience and it is that in my country traffic lights or pedestrian signals are not respected so much so that a person can cross the street, it is incredible to see how drivers make the decision to go ahead of the signals and pedestrians or citizens must to risk our lives so that they see us and thus be able to cross the street.
If this is the case in my country with a person with all their senses active, when I lose my sight, they will surely lead me ahead unless I can be guided by the cane and they (the drivers) are aware of my presence.
The other thing is to have and develop the confidence to ask, in my mind I imagine that I am in the middle of the avenue and I need to go to a pharmacy, I must be able to ask the people around me if they can guide me to that place or tell me how many blocks they could miss until you arrive.