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