[Nfbf-l] Sight is Required

[Sherri]

Very well said Tara. Matt, I have days when I feel that were it not for 
blindness, my life would be a lot better too, but then I think about it and 
realize that most of my problems and struggles are not caused by blindness, 
but by other situations and circumstances. Those of us who have never seen 
would be faced with grave psychological problems if we were suddenly to 
receive our sight. We would be receiving sensory input of a kind we have 
never had and who knows how we would react. I know perfectly sighted 
individuals who have a lot of adjusting to do. I know blind individuals who 
are doing great things, have great jobs and seem very together. But we all 
have problems and it is all relative. To say that seeing would solve 
everything I'm afraid is a great over-generalization. That does not mean 
that I do not hope for advances in the medical and biomedical field for 
sight restoration; it just means that I regard blindness as a very small 
part of the adjustment problem. I do appreciate your thoughts, however, and 
feel there are many who feel as you do.

Sherri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tara Prakash Tripathi" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Sight is Required


> 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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