Day 262
Paint clothes = going on day 3. Painting actually done = minimal.
Yeah, I’m doing just swell with my painting! These clothes can practically stand up by themselves and I have yet to get any paint on them!
I did finish my room, however. Painted the windows and cleaned the glass, rearranged the furniture and put up the last of the wall decs. It finally feels like a bedroom. It only took 5 months!
Well, I’m not entirely done – the curtains will be finished this week. Then I’ll be done … with my room.
Still plenty on my list of to-do’s though. Never fret that I’m bored!
For those of you who do not know … I have horrible eyesight. I’ve worn glasses since I was 7 … so, a LONG time. I have worn contacts since I was roughly 14 – but after 40 years of having plastic discs in my eyes I woke up one day and was done with them. I was tired of the dryness and the pain and the problems. So, as much as I really don’t like glasses, I like contacts less. Oh sure, I’d get my eyes “done” … but I’m not a candidate for lasik and have to wait for the lens implant surgery to be more affordable.
Anyway … as most people (I would think) I do not wear my glasses in the shower. And when I take them off I am pretty much blind. As in … like a bat. Except I’m not hanging upside down.
Today I turned on the shower early – letting it warm up – and (apparently) not thinking, I reached across the shower stall to remove an empty bottle and was sprayed in the face by the water.
I can’t tell you how surprised I was! Which, in itself is embarrassing, because I had turned the water on myself and it was running – so why didn’t I HEAR it … and why was it so shocking to get wet?
I don’t know. All I can think of is because I didn’t SEE the water.
Which made me think that just because you don’t SEE something – doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Like hope and faith and friendship and all those intangibles that are common to all people yet different for each of us. Success, integrity, belief, trust, love. You can’t see any of those things – but they exist and they are real.
Just as much as the water in the shower.
And I thought of how these things come about and how we learn them along the way … without seeing them. And it made me think of the other things that we learn along the way but can’t see … like hatred and bigotry and bias, ugliness and disrespect and brutality.
And it made me wish that all newborns came with an instruction tag around their ankle that simply said, “Teach me to embrace the things I cannot see … tolerance, decency, respect, humiliation, kindness and generosity.”
I think humanity would be better because of that tag.
Deep thoughts from a blind bat.