Before the cataracts were finally removed from my left eye there’s no way in hell I could or would take a pic like this for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that I was scared to get run over.
Now, with my new 20/20 vision, not only is it possible to take this pic I can tell you that the light down there is green and there’s a car with its right blinker on. NICE!
And it’s not even just my far vision that was so bad. My near vision was bad as well. Like I couldn’t look at that pic even as close as I got to it and see those same details.
Thank God for the eye doctors and modern technology that has restored my eyesight to a level I’ve never experienced even before the cataracts took hold.
I don’t even need glasses to see far in the distance and that hasn’t been the case since I was probably 10 or so.
I didn’t actually get contacts to fix my nearsightedness until I was in my early 20’s but I had been nearsighted years before that, it just wasn’t ever bad enough for me to justify getting it fixed.
Many say you shouldn’t go through life with regrets and I believe that too but that doesn’t mean you can’t have them at all and not going to the eye doctor before I was 24 is one of mine. I guess mainly because I was a pretty damn good baseball player in my younger days and I just wanna know how much better I would have been had I had perfect vision. But eh. What’s done is done. No going back.
I’m pretty excited to dominate the old man’s league pretty soon, though. Won’t happen until late August at the earliest because I still have another surgery and recovery to go through on my right eye as well but I’ll get out there soon enough. That’s really exciting to think about. I LOVE playing baseball!
But you know what else I love? Sight. Man, do you take it for granted unless it’s taken away.
Every day I go out into the world and see all these wonderful things I knew were there all along but I just couldn’t appreciate anymore. Not truly. It’s really hard to explain how mind-blowing that is. It’s almost like being born again. It’s something I kinda wish everyone could experience.
People are probably wondering why I’m going around so ecstatic these days and that’s why. A world that before was dark and cloudy to me in the middle of the day and completely absent at night has returned in all its clear and colorful glory. It’s AMAZING!!!
In a couple of hours from now I will return to a church I’ve been to a hundred times before but have never been to. It’s going to be breathtaking. Praise the Lord!
Amen. Take care and God Bless.