My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.
I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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