When reading Stereo Sue by Oliver Sack in 2006, I realized how important our vision is in multiple ways. The memory of a close friend that passed a few years ago continued to come to mind. My friend named Bill Vickery lost his vision after a surgery on his optic nerve where the nerve was beyond repair and completely damaged. Shortly after his surgery and the loss of sight be started to fall into depression and I was able to see he really needed some help.
To have the privilege of being able to see, you always wonder how life is to someone that can’t. Life revolves a lot in knowing what you can see, hear, taste, smell, and touch. These are some things we take for granted, sometimes you really have to sit yourself down and acknowledge how lucky you are. But in an imperfect world, some people aren’t as lucky and you have to be willing to listen and learn about what other people go through.
“There is nothing more worse than having sight and still not being able to
The Glass Castle and jennet walls and I kinda have something in common, she had a pretty dysfunctional family with christmases and moving a lot. Jennet had many obstacles she had to go through with moving all the time she had to make new friends she was bullied her parents didn't have a whole lot of money so they had to skimp with things like christmas. She had siblings that she had to look out for since her parents were kinda neglective. This didn't stop her from being successful in her life though she is now happily married and she know has a different look out on life then most of use from growing up on the streets she doesn't take anything for granted.
The things that my parents encountered made me a grateful person. I was fortunate enough to receive the right guidance in life to succeed. Port Arthur, Texas has made me into a motivated and determined person wanting to help the less fortunate. Surviving Hurricane Ike in 2008 gave me the mindset that anything is possible. Experiencing the crime made me very close to my family and friends because they could be dead the next
My perspective about life and the happiness change. Before, I did not use to think about the privileges I have been enjoying such as: education, healthcare, technology, etc. I did not appreciate the entitlement that I have. It is very easy to not to think about underprivileged people when individuals have everything they need. I never thought that ordinary man can make such a great difference in people lives.
I was in the hospital. I couldn’t perform basic tasks. Hours earlier I was running around screaming taking basic skills for granted. No one ever thinks walking is a blessing. I had burnt myself with hot oil/water.
So everybody in the family had to put their cash together to buy resources. Even though we had food, because the fact it needed to be kept frozen we lost a lot of food, before we got a generator. In my conclusion, there may have been many other things that changed my life, but these were the main things that actually changed the perspective of my life. Then, being unprepared, ungrateful, and not knowing that I can overcome any obstacle that I face has taught me a lot.
Eyes Like a Shutter, Mind Like a Lens I never thought that a credit card sized image would mean so much to me. As a going away present, I received a brand new polaroid camera from my parents. At the moment, I was excited; but subconsciously terrified of moving away to school. It's not that I was afraid to live on my own, but rather the fact of having to make new friends and having them like me for who I truly was.
My Special Object My dad said to me “let 's go to the store and find a gun.” So we went to Gander Mountain and Cabela 's and found one we ordered it and I said “ I can 't wait for it to come.” When it came it was long sleek barrel and had a nice fine wood grain stock with a silver trigger mechanism and a gold colored trigger. When I shoot it I think of hunting and trap shooting that 's why it 's mostly special to me.
For as long as I can remember I have loved reading. Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, it doesn’t really matter to me. I remember my mom trying to teach me how to read when I was three. I started off reading small Dr. Suess books and then it was on to newspapers and chapter books. One of my all-time favorite books when I was a kid was Junie B. Jones.
I received my first pair of glasses in the second grade. When I put them on for the first time, I entered into a different realm of reality---a reality where I could see things for what they truly were. Clear sight is one of the most important factors when living in this world because it allows us to have such great connections with it. For this reason, I aspire to become an optometrist to improve the vision of others. I may have a 20/20 vision with my glasses, but I do not need this normal eyesight to see my vision for the world.
Appearance can be misleading, the obvious things we see are not always how things are in real. In Oedipus the King, Sophocle exposes the trick of nature which is "what we see is not what is intended to be" and which turned to be a situational irony in the play, Oedipus the king. Blindness is not only apply to people who are blind.
The oil change that changed my life At one point or another, everyone fails in life. Never in the world would I thought I could have ruined someone’s life by failing a $40 oil change. Thinking back to about 2 years ago a simple oil change in a car could have put me in debt thousands. Remembering, almost every single month my dad teaching me how to do an oil change on a vehicle. My dad finally let me do one by myself on a customer’s car.
I’m sure if you asked someone “would you give up your ability to see shapes to prevent you from ever getting injured again” most people would say “of course not. Without shapes, the world would be perceived as one mass, with twisted lines, and it is so much more. I want to be able to live the world we have.” The giving up of freedom for security in this situation is too great for most, and many people would refuse. Imagine if you gave someone a day with the ability to see color.
