AN EYE FOR AN EYE, or THE PALE BLUE EYE, or A SINGULAR VIEW, or AN EYE TO THE FUTURE, or ONE EYE ON THE CLOCK, or KEEPING AN EYE ON THINGS, or VIEW THROUGH A TELESCOPE, or EYE IN THE SKY, or ONE EYED, ONE HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER, or A SINGLE POINT OF VIEW, or TUNNEL VISION, or THIRD EYE BLIND
That’s enough titles. This is one of those deals where you gain something at the same time you lose something. What I have gained is end stage macular degeneration in my right eye, resulting in the loss of central vision in that eye.
I still have peripheral vision in it and the left eye still works or I wouldn’t be typing this, but it’s dimming so now the race is on. Will I go blind first, or die of old age first? The real problem is trying to decide which I prefer, not that I have much to say about it but still, it seems like I should. I mean, what the hell, it’s my eyes and my life, right?
It’s at this stage in life when we begin to realize, if we have any sense left and we haven’t figured it out before now, that our ownership of life is an illusion, we don’t own squat. At least, that’s how I partially see it.