Senses...

Apparently I'm not smoking enough weed in my life because I still have a butt load of pressure in my eyes, which is making me a great candidate for glaucoma.

Stay away from hash brownies. I repeat STAY AWAY!!!

Seriously though, I have no idea how to correct it. I just know how to stay black and die, man. But anyways. I was at Duke Eye Center today for some more testing and pictures of ONLY my left eye. I felt like a freaking science project. They poked and pulled on my eye lids to get any and every angle of my eye they could get in a picture.

This won't hurt a bit. You won't feel a thing.....Ok, maybe a little.....Actually, a lot, it'll hurt a lot.

                                           

Well, let me rewind a little bit and go back to when I was sitting in the waiting area to get my eye mug shots. All of seats closest to me were taken so I had to look around for a free seat. I just wanted to sit down! I finally found one beside this old guy who was there with his "friend". I say "friend" because he didn't call her his wife or girlfriend. Maybe it was just his boo thang, who knows? She excused herself to the ladies' room, which left me and old guy there sitting together. I guess the silence was bothering him because he decided to turn to me and complain about a horrible laser job that a doctor had done on his eye that left one eye just about blind. Apparently the doctor had incorrectly burned off some of his blood vessels, it sounded weird and like something I never wanted to go through. He told me how he lived in Burlington and that it took him forever to get here earl in the  morning. He complained about the drive back and how it would be impossible for him to drive back home with the sun beaming in his eyes. He bought along his boo thang as his designated driver. We talked about being thankful for having people there for us to help us when we're in need.  He agreed but still went on the complain about how these are supposed to be his retired years, he's supposed to spend them being happy and he wasn't happy. I tried my best to be optimistic for the both of us and I think I helped a little. It wasn't until he said this one statement that I kind of clammed up a bit. He told me that he'd rather be deaf then be blind any day of the week. That got me wondering, which would I choose (if I had to)? With out much thinking, I immediately chose being blind. I thought about all the beautiful music I love listening to. All of the music that got me to where I am now. All of the music that got me through those tough situations. All of those study sessions where I didn't actually study. All of the music I downloaded legally......and illegally. Could I give all of that up? Could I handle not having that in my life anymore? More importantly, could I handle not being able to hear my loved ones tell me they love me? That's tough. I guess it's different for me though. I live away from pretty much everyone I love and talk to on a daily basis. I mostly talk to all of them by phone anyway; either that or text (which deals with vision unless you have one that talks to you, which would be flippin awesome!). But seriously, I think about all of the wonderful sounds that are around us. Besides, think about it, anyone could sit beside you and fart and you'd never know it. Do you really want that in your life??? Didn't think so.

Poor guy didn't stand a chance, smh.

There's just way too many wonderful artists and musicians out there. I would hate to miss out on their awesome creativity. But I will admit, giving up sight means that I would have to give up driving. That may be the deal breaker, but I love music WAAAYY too much. How about this, I choose to be healthy and happy with all of my senses. You feel me?

Hey! Did you see what I did there? I used all 5 senses in here. Look at me being all clever and ish. I'm patting myself on the back right now, you just can't see it. *BOW!*

See? What if this guy lost his hearing? He couldn't moonwalk to phat beats. Just sayin'.

Hey. I think I'm doing the moonwalk in class tomorrow. I've just been inspired to do something epic. I love life :-)

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ACTUALLY SMOKE WEED!!!