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Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we

picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but

unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about

our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the

deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly

does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who

have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed

faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with

little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it,

of not being conscious of health until we are ill.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being was stricken blind and deaf for a

few days at some time during his adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of

sight, silence would teach him the joy of sound. Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to

discover what they see. Recently I asked a friend, who had just returned from a long walk in the

woods, what she has observed. "Nothing in particular," she replied.

How was it possible I asked myself to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing

worthy of note? I, who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I

feel the delicate symmetry of leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver

birch or the rough, shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in

search of a bud, the first sign of awakening nature after her winter's sleep. Occasionally I am

fortunate & place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song.

At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things.

If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by

sight. And I have imagined what I should like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say, just

for three days.
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