My Life as a Fairy Tale: Then we went into the woods to get our wish and now we're really blind

I was having a really goofy conversation at work today…It started out, oddly enough, about multi-dimensional calculus and suduko. It was a logical progression to things that people didn’t understand, as I am sure that those are two things that many people don’t really understand. I do and I guess I am proud of that. What I don’t understand is crocheting. I can knit and exact replica of the Mona Lisa but crocheting is as foreign to me as Multi-D is to many people. Another thing I don’t understand is signs (The movie by the same name is equally perplexing but that’s another story) More specifically- Braille signs. The hotel that I worked in has signs on every door so that you can tell what room number it is. Duh…But also on this sign is the same information, but in Braille. Now, if you are blind, how do find this information? Clearly, you can’t see where the sign is to read the Braille numbers…If you are with a sighted friend, are they gonna put your hands on the signs and wait for you to find the right room number? Thanks! What a pal! I mean otherwise do you just randomly feel around hoping to find a room number? That may be a great way to meet people, but it’s not really gonna get you into YOUR room. It’s almost as bad as the "Braille menu available" sign at the McDonald’s Drive thru window…almost… somehow on some level that makes more sense to me. While pondering this over a tasty Gin and Tonic, I realized that maybe there is more to this than, well… meets the eye. How do we find something if we don’t know if there is anything there to find? How often do we find ourselves stumbling in the dark, looking for something that just isn’t there? And I guess the corollary is just as true. We can stare a

t something for years, and miss something big.

Can you see the arrow ?

So where do we even begin to look for the light switch? I think it has something to do with not relying so much on our vision (or sense of smell, taste, touch, or sound), and develop our other senses more. We look for things that aren’t there, because we want something to be there, not even knowing what could be there (Like Tom Wopat does with his career). We ignore obvious things, because we don’t want the familiar and safe, to change (Like the bad relationship). The problem with developing these senses is that we don’t know where to look for it. Again, stumbling in the dark for something that we are guessing may be there. So, I guess it comes down to a matter of trust. If you truly believe that there is something there to find, you’ll keep looking until you find something. You just need to trust that when we find whatever it is, that we actually see it for what it is… and if it’s not what we need and want, then we need to keep looking.

Hopefully this will make it more clear....