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A Blind World

What if the world was blind? What would it be like? What if everyone, from the day of creation, was born without sight?

Would the world be better or worse? How would we picture life? Those are some good but tough questions to think about. They're a few which I have pondered on many times, and are ones that I would like you to contemplate.

So, as these questions are rolling around in your head like marbles, let me tell you how I picture it if the world was blind. The world we are living in today, in my opinion, is a messed up piece of work.

Hatred and bad prejudice is crammed into the tiny little crevices of everyone's heart. Even if they don't wish to believe this way, it is so. It has been like this since God only knows when.

Bad prejudice is where someone judges someone else in a harsh way because they are different. We dislike or even hate others because they are of different religion, race, disability, etc.

Why is it like this? The famous word known as hatred is boiling inside of everyone like a volcano waiting its eruption. Finally, when it erupts, it's as if lava is shot out onto the victims causing their souls to be burnt.

What I'm trying to say is that hatred harms people in many ways. People are hurt emotionally, physically, and socially. Feelings are wounded, beatings and killings occur, and non-communication is presented.

It is like this, I believe, because the world wishes everyone was the same in every characteristic. What if the world was blind? Would we know what the word different means? If the world was blind from the point of creation, we would not know what being different meant.

We could not physically see each other. In that case, we could not judge people for being unlike ourselves. We couldn't see the dissimilarities in their appearance. We could not tell if the person was disabled in any way. We couldn't even match a person's voice to a race, religion, or even an age.

In the sighted world we live in, you can tell a person's ethnicity just based on their speech or dialect. It wouldn't be this way if we were unable to see from birth. If the world was blind, we wouldn't be judging each other.

We would not judge a book by its cover. The interior would be the only thing that counted, not the exterior. If the world was blind, we would not have explored the subject known as hatred.

Even though there is nothing we can do to change the past judgments we have made towards a human, we can change the way we look at people now. From here on out, don't look at the world through a sighted point of view, but start looking at it through a blind person's perspective.

I promise, if we all started to do this that the world would be a better place.

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