[NFB-Seniors-Discussion] I hate being blind - Can or do you ever say this?

[Cindy Ray]

Robert, I couldn’t have said it more eloquently. I have said before that I hate being blind, and that is the exact reason.
Cindy 

> On Mar 7, 2021, at 12:35 PM, RobertLeslie Newman via NFB-Seniors-Discussion <nfb-seniors-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Fellow Discussion List Members 
> It has been very quiet here of late, and so read my short paragraph below and share-
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> Most times, when I meet a new person and they ask me what is it like to be blind, I will say something like this:
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> Well… Let me start off with telling you that my story starts out with the fact that I was born with Twenty-twenty vision, and at age fifteen, I was in a car accident and lost all my sight; I cannot even see light. Now, I see just as good out of the back of my head, as I do the front. And what I have learned, is that being blind, not able to use my eyes to do things in life is not so difficult; that most everything can be done non-visually. And that I’ve also learned that the toughest and most frustrating part of being blind is how other people view you, and treat you; they can make it more disheartening and difficult to do what I know I can do. But hey, though I hate being blind, life is to big and beautiful to get hung up in the small things; like being blind.
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> Respectfully yours,
> Robert Leslie Newman
> Omaha, Nebraska 
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