06 February 2004 22:56
i'm reading a book...he was playing baseball, having fun.
a baseball hit him on the glasses, shattering glass into his eye.
he was in the hospital for two weeks, a bandage over his left eye.
his bed was between a forty-five year old man on one side,
a nine year old kid on the other.
(the kid was blind.
the man had only one eye left, the other destroyed in a boxing match.)
with his left eye bandaged, he could not wear his glasses.
he was released from the hospital, and for ten days was not allowed to read or strain his eyes.
but he could wear his glasses now, and he could see through both eyes.
he spent hours and hours those first days, just looking.
looking at the world around him, a world he had never really seen before.
attention to detail, observing through sight, absorbing the world around us without really seeing it.
"The Chosen" -Chaim Potok
0206046.1956
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