I am near sighted. Not just a little. I am very slighted when viewing things from a distance. Every day since third grade I have put corrective eyewear on before getting out of bed and taken them off before closing my eyes at night. At first, all the name calling was offensive, four eyes and all the other names that kids can utilize to berate other children but it didn't take long to realize I needed the corrected vision more than all the trouble it caused. What appeared to be a limitation has, in the last few years, become an invaluable tool in observing many things from a different perspective.
With no correction, trees are green with no definition of leaves or bark. They all blend together in a sea of green with brown trunks elevating the ocean of green above a bed of green, brown and gold. The sky appears as shades of blue, tinted with fogs of white and gray when clouds present themselves for comfort and cover. It's the same with cars, signs, houses, crowds, people, everything. Corrective lenses bring everything definition. trees can now be defined and categorized, types of grass are stereotyped into categories, signs can be read defining rules and pushing products. Homes are grouped according to appearance leading to assumptions regarding habitation. Crowds are no longer a blend of people but a sea of different types of people.
As I have aged I have and am still learning to "see" things from different perspectives. Without visual correction I see a crowd of people becoming one in motion. With visual correction, they become individuals available for stereotyping or profiling. With corrected vision, they are large, small, tall, short, average, unique, friendly, unfriendly and many other types of profiles.
It's nice to be able to remove my corrective lenses and see a world without profiles. I'm not implying the need for less detail, I'm thinking sometimes the details can become so overwhelming we lose sight of the common thread all of creation has. We are all loved by God. I wonder if He blurs His vision once in a while?
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