my friend recently met up with me
after having eye surgery
surprised
at all the things she could now see clearly
having adapted over time
never realizing how much she had been missing
even the coat she was wearing
she had returned a couple of weeks ago
insisting that ‘it is gray and not what I ordered!’
the company sent her a new one
she was a bit upset
when they sent her a gray one once again
but decided to not hassle with it
wore it to her surgery
put it on for the ride home
her eye quickly healed
wore her ‘gray’ coat to our meeting
discovering that it was actually ‘blue’
the color she had ordered twice
but could not see
imagine the things she’ll see
when her other eye is done.
—
‘every person takes the limits of their own field of vision
for the limits of the world.’
-arthur schopenhauer
