[Nfbf-l] Sight is Required

[Tara Prakash Tripathi]

Appreciate your thoughts Matt. The problem is that perfect is the enemy of 
good. I am not sure how well-adjusted will make you well-adjusted. There are 
degrees of attainment yet nobody is perfect. There was a time that a lot of 
people whom you would consider well-adjusted (because they are not blind) 
would have liked to be as well-adjusted as Bill Gates. But now they want to 
be as well-adjusted as Steve Jobs or the facebook inventor with a 
complicated last name. I lived in apartments once, I thought I was not 
well-adjusted there. I wanted to live in a house. Now I live in one, I 
should be well-adjusted. But soon I will desire for a house with more rooms 
or may be with a swimming pool. We have a whole ocean of problems, not 
because we are blind but because we are human beings. And so we want to 
achieve something better, that leads to progress, or from the situation of 
being well-adjusted to very well-adjusted or very very well-adjusted. The 
ocean of problems can not be crossed with a single giant leap, again not 
because we are blind, but because we are human beings and we all have our 
limitations.

Dwights' endeavor may not give me a car to drive, even if it gives me a car 
to drive it may not take all my limitations away. Those limitations will 
stay in some form or the other even if my sight is restored. What Dwight 
teaches is not how to be well-adjusted but to have a mission and to fulfill 
it.

In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.


Best

Tara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Roberts" <blindbiker at yahoo.com>
To: <Nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:13 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] Sight is Required


>I have been doing a lot of soul searching.  Sadly I have come up with a 
>realization that will be foreign to most of you, but feel I should share it 
>anyway.
> We can create all the artificial things we want to allow us to be like 
> everyone else, but it won't do it.  Most things I ike to do require sight, 
> and there is no getting around it! The only way to be able to fully enjoy 
> my life is if I get full vision, or enough to allow me to not appear 
> blind.  Blindness is the most feared thing most people "see" and nothing 
> we can do will change that!
> Instead of worrying about a small aspect of society such as driving, we 
> need to focus on seeing.
> That's my goal, to see! We will see ways eye conditions can be reversed. 
> It may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen.  When mine is reversed, 
> I'll be able to enjoy all the things which are closed off to me right now. 
> I don't choose to live my life as a blind person.  Why? All blind people 
> do is sit home and live on the phone and computer or watch TV all day. 
> Very few of us are working, and are relying on the government to support 
> us.  That's not the kind of life I choose to live!
> Before you tell me I'm not fully adjusted to my disability, I'd ask you 
> are you fully adjusted? You never fully adjust to not being able to do 
> things you once did or want to do.  Anyone who tells you they are fully 
> adjusted to being blind is not telling the truth.
> I can't predict exactly when , but in a few years, when eye conditions are 
> being reversed, I hope you'll take advantage it this.  A few cases of 
> blindness have been reversed.  It can openly get better!
>
>
> Matt Roberts blindbiker at yahoo.com
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