Bad Eyesight is a Virtue

This might be one of the first times you read this, but I’ll say it anyway. Seeing is pointless. Every day, we meet so many new impressions, so much to focus on, that we never have the time to actually see what is underneath. I wear contacts or glasses on a daily basis, and taking them off is an indescribable feeling.

When you have gone through a full day seeing everything as if you had 20/20 eyesight, it puts you in a near-meditative state to not see anything but a blur. It becomes this sort of time for self-reflection where you can no longer think about your surroundings, because you can’t reach out to your surroundings. Instead, you have to reach in, and, with great intent, explore yourself. Just like anyone can close their eyes to focus their thoughts, I can take my contacts out or my glasses off, and it’s the same experience of focus, but yet maintaining the vivid colourful brightness that is the world.

Laser surgery may be popular, but it’s nothing I want to do. Not because of any fear, but because I know I will lose my anytime meditation.