We haven't spoken in a long time-- like over a year, what happened? I thought this was going to be an ongoing relationship- why did you fail me? I need you more than you need me and I think you knew that and you took advantage of the situation-- I'm not saying I'm going to hold it against you I'm just saying I know. So let's move on....
The small stuff is the big stuff really so let me start by saying, I got new glasses.
Impressed? I was-- by the clear crisp lines of the world. Seriously, faces have expressions, signs have words, and most importantly, roads have lines. Truly the world is a new place. And because I can't just appreciate something at face value I started thinking about the symbolism behind seeing things (very literally) clearly.
I'm lucky enough to be able to afford an eye exam and a hot new pair frames and it still took me roughly four years to get myself to make the switch-- and because of my birth lottery ('Merica/1st world country) I knew that blurry vision could easily be corrected and that the world wasn't supposed to move in blob like shapes. So what's the flip side to that? What if where you were born wasn't privileged to Lenscrafters and no one ever checked your eyes and you always thought that things were blurry five feet from your face and that's just how the world looked. Would it change how you thought of things; of beauty? of precision? of correlation? of fear? I don't even really have that big of an impairment -- and I have access to like three Lenscrafters-- and yet each of these things looked differently through my new lenses. You can imagine how beauty might change if you can't see the creases on your face or how I was more fearful when driving because I could never really see the road ahead.
*Run on sentence warning ahead. ----There is also that whole thought of how do we instigate peace with the world when what we think we are presenting is peace because that is what we see it as but the other side is looking through their own lens and what we show them as peace doesn't look anything like peace and so they counter offer with their vision of peace and to us that looks nothing like peace because we have our own glasses on so we argue and fight instead of trying to put on each others glasses. But that is a whole other story.
But what I have is today, so I celebrate the details in God's creation -- because today I can see them.
I'm lucky enough to be able to afford an eye exam and a hot new pair frames and it still took me roughly four years to get myself to make the switch-- and because of my birth lottery ('Merica/1st world country) I knew that blurry vision could easily be corrected and that the world wasn't supposed to move in blob like shapes. So what's the flip side to that? What if where you were born wasn't privileged to Lenscrafters and no one ever checked your eyes and you always thought that things were blurry five feet from your face and that's just how the world looked. Would it change how you thought of things; of beauty? of precision? of correlation? of fear? I don't even really have that big of an impairment -- and I have access to like three Lenscrafters-- and yet each of these things looked differently through my new lenses. You can imagine how beauty might change if you can't see the creases on your face or how I was more fearful when driving because I could never really see the road ahead.
*Run on sentence warning ahead. ----There is also that whole thought of how do we instigate peace with the world when what we think we are presenting is peace because that is what we see it as but the other side is looking through their own lens and what we show them as peace doesn't look anything like peace and so they counter offer with their vision of peace and to us that looks nothing like peace because we have our own glasses on so we argue and fight instead of trying to put on each others glasses. But that is a whole other story.
But what I have is today, so I celebrate the details in God's creation -- because today I can see them.
With laughter and joy,
Mimi
**Author note-- I've changed the name of my blog and the web address. Although the Salonen's have many adventures --setbacks in life tend to have the better story-- at least that's how my life plays out :) So update your book marks -- haha --wait I mean bookmark this page and follow me.
www.ourtemporarysetbacks.blogspot.com
**Author note-- I've changed the name of my blog and the web address. Although the Salonen's have many adventures --setbacks in life tend to have the better story-- at least that's how my life plays out :) So update your book marks -- haha --wait I mean bookmark this page and follow me.
www.ourtemporarysetbacks.blogspot.com
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