This is my favorite blog post yet. We have been practicing all semester on how to look at the world with a different perspective, but this reading reaches the epitome of perspective. A blind man seems to have a better grasp on how the world looks, reacts, and behaves better than the wife and the man. The man had a very pessimistic view on life but the blind man helped him find his identity. My favorite part of the story came at the end when he asked him to describe a cathedral. When he realized he couldn't do it justice, the blind man had him draw it, with his eyes closed! When the blind man asked him to describe it now, the man said it was really something.
There is nothing in this story that I want to criticize. I feel like the point of this story is about perspective. Before I read this, I would have said that blindness is a lack of perspective. A blind man can only use his imagination along with his other senses to construct an image. Sight is so important to us and guides virtually everything we do. It would help us all to remove sight for a short period and construct an image with this "lack" of perspective.
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