I don’t have perfect vision, it’s far from it and I basically need glasses to function. To be able to drive, to be able to read. Yes perhaps if I blew up the font I wouldn’t, and I could get around okay with a lot of time to adapt if I lost my glasses. But I basically need glasses to maintain my current standard of life.
For some reason, I have always wondered what would happen if I went blind. Maybe certain events in my life have made me consider this more than others. I went to a Dialogue in the Dark in Vienna (which was fantastic and it stimulates complete blindness in a variety of atmospheres), I recently found a blind Youtuber which I have been watching, and now I’m reading a book about people who have suddenly been struck blind.
So blindness has been on the mind. Because of that, I really wonder about the differences in my life if I were blind. The Youtuber I was watching did a whole blog post about how she does her makeup being blind and it really inspired me. There are a lot of ways to adapt and find a new way of doing things. It has inspired me to explore it a bit in my own life.
The book I am reading at the moment is also helping me reevaluate the ways my life would change if I was blind. How would my morning routine change? How about tea? I also am a very clumsy person with sight, so I wonder if being blind would make me more cautious and have less accidents.
Just food for thought