Wicked Sweet Blog Land

What do blind people see? What do deaf people hear? What do mute people say? These people truly live in their own worlds. They have the best of imaginations. A blind person can make things whatever they want them to be. A deaf person can make music in their heads without the interruptions of the world. These people are also spared some of the things in the world today. They don’t have to see the horrible things that people can do to each other, and they don’t have to hear the words of sadness and terror. Although they may know of such things, they never have to experience them. Deaf people are free from hearing ridicule and insult and the blind are free of seeing things that are repulsive. They are always looked at like they need our help, like luck has abandoned them, but really, they are the lucky ones.

How many of you can build a fire? How many can make a meal from scratch? The world has abandoned skill to convenience. I’m not saying that I can do these things, but our survival has turned from not having enough to eat and keeping warm to having better transportation than our feet and keeping ourselves from being bored. Life has changed a lot from times when we needed to keep ourselves alive rather than entertained or convenienced. People invented things like cars and television to make life “better” for everyone, but look at where the U.S. is now. The country is obese because of convenience, because they can sit around watching television or playing video games, or they don’t walk anywhere. Not saying you should wake up at 3 a.m. so that you can walk the 20 miles to work, but, when the weather permits, why can’t people walk to the grocery store or library? Maybe people have forgotten the feeling you get from doing things for yourself, rather than letting a machine do it. I personally hope that the world of the Jetsons with flying cars, teleportation machines, and one-person elevators never comes to be, for thanthis would be the ultimate time of laziness (better known as ‘convenience’). Not all things learned from the past have to be mistakes. There were good things that people did, we should learn from those, too.