My representation of the Boston skyline through the eyes of Stuvi 1502... failed.

But it got me to thinking. what would it be like to go an entire day without my contacts in? for those of you who don't know, i'm pretty close to legally blind, if not over the legal limit. that on top of my color deficiency, and in all likelihood, my perception of the world is remarkably skewed. However, it can't be any better or worse than the next guy over, or the next girl for that matter. In our own way, regardless of astigmatism, hyperopia, or colorblindness, we all see what we choose to see, and are keenly unobservant of those tiny details that serve to elucidate the simple fact that all is not well in our lives. And these details are blurred by the double-vision and myopia, lost as we live with blinders on, to cover the unavoidable truths, the "-isms" that bring us together while simultaneously driving us apart.

Cateracts form.

It is simply a matter of entropy. there's no stopping it, no delaying it. so what can you do but enjoy the fleeting moments of the present? Just like this post started off as a question of blinders, and now lacks any cohesion whatsoever.

Back to the matter at hand...

Think of all the biases you've been brought up with, or have developed on your own. "Asian girls are bad drivers." "Middle Eastern people are all fanatical Islamic fundamentalists." "Blondes are ditzy." "White people can't dance." "Brown people all have a cousin named Jesus." The list goes on. But the point is, we are content to live life in a bubble, engulfed in the life that we know, suffocated by the things that we refuse to believe. It's time for me to take off my blinders. Expect the unexpected. Broaden my horizons. Stop thinking that my problems will disappear if i act like they don't exist. Stop running from my past, and from my future. Stop taking anyone and everyone else's word for it, and find out for myself who i am, and what i can really be.

Now if you'll excuse me, i have a stack of parking tickets to pay and some people to call. And apparently, the price of Lasic is going down by the day...