Monday, January 7, 2008

The World touches all our senses differently

Have you ever met someone who was color blind? I know several people who are. My grandpa for one, some friends, and I am told that I am color blind. Only problem with that statement is that no one can prove to me that I see things differently.

How in the world are we supposed to know that a lion's roar sounds exactly the same to everyone? We may just recognize the sound is a roaring lion. I might hear the lion's roar as a train. You might hear the same lion and think that it is a symphony. I believe that when you turn to your friend and ask what the lion sounds like, he will tell you, but you still may not know exactly how it sounds to him.

When we see things we all see things differently. I might not see red and green as well as you see red and green. I sometimes have looked at a pine tree and seen a color that was laughed at. When I taste something sour and don't like it; it tastes like pencil lead. When someone who likes sour things tastes it, they may taste a handful of sugar.

I have discovered this over several years. I have realized that there really is no way to prove to someone that they are color blind. We don't know that they see anything different and they may never know that they see anything different. Look at it this way, we do not know if someone is deaf, they just might be faking it all the time. We don't know if there really is such thing as blindness, we might see people with sight dogs and glasses who can see just fine, but it just looks like they can't use their eyes very well. The same goes for people who are mute, they may speak fine, they just don't know how to talk. People who think that they are strong may just have lifted enough heavy things they convinced there body to lift heavy things. I know that that sounds harsh and I really believe that there is such a thing as people with disabilites, but my point is that we have no reason to be so harsh when we have no idea how we ourselves see the world.

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