by Peter Perkins

This morning I woke up and got ready for the day. It was like any other day until a condition that occurs rarely happened. When it is very dry out, as it has been for a few days now, I can have a piece of dry skin fall into one of my eyes. When this happens I can’t see through that eye for several minutes until I blink or wash out my eye.

This morning was one of those times. Just as I was temporarily blinded the phone rang and it was my mother wanting to know if I would go shopping with her. I told her what was happening and that I didn’t feel safe to drive just now.

My mother told me she would be over with some eye drops. I am very thankful that my mother is always willing to help me out when something like this comes up. During the time that it took for her to arrive I had blinked and used water to clean out my eye and it was fine.

Still for those few painstaking moments of blindness in one eye it made me appreciative of a few things. I was grateful I could see out of my other eye. I was grateful that I could hear to get that phone call from my mother. I was grateful that I could get up and head to the sink to wash my eye out with water.

Losing my sight made me acutely aware of many of the things we tend to take for granted. In a strange way temporarily losing my sight made me see clearly the blessings I do have.

I did end up heading out and helping my mom shop. As I made my way through the aisles I saw several handicapped people and felt a stronger empathy with them.

Sometimes it takes something negative to make us see the positive.

Peter

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