So what if a blind man cannot tell the difference between a green thing or a yellow thing, and has no idea at all about the concept of colour?
Sure he missed something that normally sighted people has - the experience of the colourful. But so what if he is unable to have such an experience?
It is certainly a different life. But it may not be any less richer. For, as an example, he may have a keener sense of sound and touch compared to sighted people.
And life may not be any less meaningful too. It can even be more meaningful: for life is not merely about things seen but even more so, it is certainly about things unseen, such as love and beauty and joy and fulfillment, and many other things of the spirit, just as life is not merely about food, drink and sex.
For example the things written in this words are entirely spiritual. They are not about things seen or touched or heard. But yet these things may matter more for life than anything seen or touched or heard.
But unless a blind man recognises and accepts that he can never know colour, he may not look elsewhere, and may never see and take this path, and will not even begin to ask the right questions.
If he simply and simplistically just want to have what everyone have in common, and just be like anybody, and be like sighted people, and make a so-called choice to learn about colours, and in desperation even deludes himself that he have learnt it, then he will never come this way, and will never truly learn that life is more than sight and sound and touch.
And he will also never discover his true destiny.
But if he is wise and knows that not all things can be changed or for your choosing, then he may discover a new road and a new way, perhaps, only something that he alone can and must walk.
Maybe he cannot walk it alone. And maybe there is someone waiting to walk with him. But then he is blind.
But if he does come this way - alone or with a partner - then all things are equal - for in a sense everyone is blind spiritually. And then the blind man is no longer any worst off from anyone sighted, and in fact may be even better off, for sight can be a great distraction and even a deceiver.
For things of the spirit are not seen but discerned spiritually without eyes.
And then the blind may truly see, and the sighted are the ones blind.
1 comment:
Superbly written. Brilliant. You know(whoever you are), that the troubles in the world - the fact that hardly anyone is happy, is only because we fail to make the best of what we have. Rather, we keep looking at what we don't and perhaps even despise others who do. Peace, like a rebuked child, finds a dark corner to hide in... Anyway, keep up the good work. What do you do?
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