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March 23rd, 2017, 11:25
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Re: Thailand's blind children's orchestra - from BBC news website today for anyone interested.
Thanks for the link, and sounds like the kids are quite happy. Thanks for the reminder as well, as I really need to get my shit together, and begin helping.
Being blind isn't all that bad, and there's some benefits.
- You become much stronger internally. Going blind is quite terrifying, so you have no choice, and find an inner strength you never knew you had before.
- You get to experience human compassion much more. Instead of living in a cold, heartless looney bin of a world that you know is out there, you end up living in a world filled with warmth and compassion. Whether it's just someone just offering you a ride home, helping you cross the street, helping you pick out items from a store, or whatever.
- Your intution is increased. You can no longer read people by their body language or facial expression, so your intuition gets kicked up a notch, and you can pickup on people's vibes and tell what they're feeling / thinking better. I still constantly surprise Leo by telling him what he's thinking, or what he's about to do.
- You concentrate only on the important things in life. Everything now takes three times as long, and is a struggle, hence a lot of bullshit gets cut out of your life. You only care about what truly matters -- the things you'll be thinking about on your death bed. The rest of life is just fluff anyway.
- This is jokingly, but you get to act like more of an idiot in public, because hey, nobody is going to get angry at the blind guy.
- You no longer have any secrets, because you rely on others too much to keep them. May seem like a negative to some people, but it's actually quite liberating.
See, it's not all ad. There's the obvious drawbacks, but I try not to concentrate on those, as that just leads to depression.
But yeah, thanks for the reminder. I need to get my house in order, and begin providing assistance where I can.
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