ClearAsCrystal Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Okay...so, i had this open discussion the other day (and that thread love and lose or never loved at all) reminded me of this. If ....IF you had to choose, which you don't, would you rather have experienced vision for some years and then lose your eyesight (another view <<pun? ... lose somthing that gave you such enjoyment) OR.. Would you rather not go through a painful experience of having and then losing the vision and have been born blind? I dunno. Sometimes I think it would be the most awful thing to lose something that you have enjoyed for soooo long. But then again, if you do lose the vision after all that time, you will have at least experienced it and you know what colors are and what objects look like and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilolas Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 i think being blind is the worst thing there is!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearAsCrystal Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 I think so too...take any one of my other senses and I would be fine! In order of which i would lose most reluctantly smell taste hear touch see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 if you were born blind,maybe it's easier to live after,but i don't know only a thaught.to loose your sight...it might be terrible,but i would fight to get it back or just live as blind,but don't want to think about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearAsCrystal Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 Of course I would not like, kill myself if i became blind...But it would be a horrifically changing experience! It would be something that would make me bitter :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 i wouldn't kill myself,it would be the weakest decission...the life is a gift,so enjoy it in every form,blind people live and enjoy their lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilolas Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 i think both are terrible... of course if you were born blind it would be easier to get use to live like that... but you would never know colours, the difference between beautiful and ugly, etc... can't even imagine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 you don't know what's the death,cause you never tried it (heh).so "born blind" also doesn't know what are colours,how does the sky look like,well if you become blind later in your life that's another story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilolas Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 i think both are terrible... i was talking about born blind and become blind... not talking about death... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 but you would never know colours for born blind colours same like for us death,we don't know what's this i made a comparision,didn't talk about death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tilolas Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 yeahhh, i got it... that's why i meant that would probably be worse than becoming blind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 nope in my opinion,if you become blind it's more painful to live after.you saw the sky,the rivers,the mountains...but in one moment all gone... :uneasy: i think for people who were born blind maybe easier to live with the thaught that they're blind.i don't know how to be blind,i cannot know it for sure anyway,gute nacht Miguel :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Nobody is answering the interesting question! I'd have to be born blind. A person who is born blind never fully understands that people can see, they never truely understand what seeing is, and I'd live happier that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 yeah.they live their own lives,they have different "colours",they see (not sarcasm) another beatiful things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Yep. If I became blind, then I'd constantly be wanting to see what I originally saw, and of course that wouldnt happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grace Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 in my opinion being blind is not as bad as beind deaf ... whatever i'd rather be born blind than become blind ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Pin Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 same here, its an awful feeling when u lose something and you know you wont get it back ever again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ergf Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 if you were born blind' date='maybe it's easier to live after,but i don't know only a thaught.to loose your sight...it might be terrible,but i would fight to get it back or just live as blind,but don't want to think about it...[/quote'] agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnie2789 Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 mmm i think there's a general consensus here that we'd rather be born blind than become blind. i agree with it too. if you were born blind, you wouldn't know any better. off course you would think "i wonder what it's like to be able to see" but it's not the same as experiencing this and then never being able to experience sight again. i could sit here and say that if i were to become blind now i'd say "at least i had the opportunity to be able to see in the first place and experience good vision" but i know that if it came to it, i'd be bitter as hell and would never be the same again. i agree with you headless chick, in that i'd rather be blind than deaf. i can't sleep at night because i hate complete and utter silence. i have to sleep with the fan on so i can hear the motor or something. i would hate to be deaf. ahhh. :dead: i hate thinking about this stuff. :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 I think being born blind is better (hm ok) than becoming blind......because if you had seen the world before beign blind.......you know how things look like.......being born blind gives you the opportunity to create your own world..which maybe is better.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearAsCrystal Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 mmm i think there's a general consensus here that we'd rather be born blind than become blind. i agree with it too. if you were born blind, you wouldn't know any better. off course you would think "i wonder what it's like to be able to see" but it's not the same as experiencing this and then never being able to experience sight again. i could sit here and say that if i were to become blind now i'd say "at least i had the opportunity to be able to see in the first place and experience good vision" but i know that if it came to it, i'd be bitter as hell and would never be the same again. i agree with you headless chick, in that i'd rather be blind than deaf. i can't sleep at night because i hate complete and utter silence. i have to sleep with the fan on so i can hear the motor or something. i would hate to be deaf. ahhh. :dead: i hate thinking about this stuff. :dead: Completely agree ..( I do the fan thing too!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 Well... I think I have a more experienced view on this than you guys do... But... I'd rather die. 2 of my grandparents were blind (one of them, my nan, is still alive - my grandad died a few years ago). My mothers parents. Now, my Grandad was born blind (my greatgrandmother caught malaria or something when pregnant), and my nan was hit by a car at 11 which caused her total sight loss. After seeing them live their lives and hear things that happened to them, and seeing how much they rely on other people (my mom, and my aunts) it's really something I couldn't stand. My nan can't walk, and that's plainly cause she couldn't exercise like most people can, she couldn't go and run or anything so now whenever I see her I have to help her with moving around her flat, and she's gonna have to go into care soon cause she can't even manage walking along a railing now. My grandad was slightly better suited to it, he never knew sight so he didn't miss it as much, and he played piano and used to work as a typist. But can you imagine that? Getting married, having 3 children, having 10 grandchildren and not being able to see any of them, at all? If there was a sudden cure for blindness and my nan got it, and I walked in the room and didn't say a word... She wouldn't know who I was. Sight is such an important sense and perhaps most of you don't realise that as much as I have (all down to experiences, I'm sorry if any of you have sight problems, or know people who have). All I know is that if I got in an accident and had a choice between staying alive but being blind, or death. I'd choose death. Every time. Losing my sight is my worst fear. Blindness is a pretty strong subject with me, as you might be able to tell. Sorry if I come across somewhat aggressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrfSnwColdplay Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I would rather become blind. You have gotten to see your parents, siblings, girlfriend...etc. Just to keep an image of those people and things that are amazing would just be better to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrfSnwColdplay Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Coldplay,The Who,Jimi Hendrix,Steve Miller Band,Gomez,Travis,Franz Ferdinand,The Doors..... Dude whisperator you got awesome music taste by the way...love all of those bands/musicians :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music_fr33k Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 being blind isn't a good thing...we lose all the fun in our lives, all the color and stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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