An Eye - Opening Journey

I'll share you a story.

There was once a newborn baby who had a weird eye condition.

His left eye has this rapid wiggling effect that even his parents don't know what to do with him. So they took him to a doctor and examined him further.

All the doctor can say is that it can be operated but lose one eye or replace it with another one.

His parents have insufficient funds to manage his operations and so they let him be.

The boy grew up and when he look at you straight up, he'll look at you at a 45 degree angle from the right. Since his dominant one is his right eye, so that explains why he looks at you that way.

As he grew much older, going to middle school, he managed to straighten up on his focus of facing people. It means that when he look at you, he now looks at you straight with both eyes not the 45 degree angle look.

He then goes to high school. 

The school held a Star Search competition within the year levels to see who would be the best on which craft each of the levels will be presenting.

The boy joined the dance contest portion. He was so excited because he likes to dance.

When their group started performing, the boy felt dizzy and see flashes of light in his left eye. He left the group since he cannot focus anymore on his dance steps due to the flashing effect. It took minutes to send those flashing effect gone. And when the flashes are gone that was the same time the group finished their performance.

Poor kid. He wasn't able to enjoy dancing due to that condition.

From that time on, he is experiencing frequent flashing effect on his left eye but just for a few minutes.

Then he was able to reach college level and graduated. He even got his first job a few months after graduation.

He really felt blessed at that time despite his eye condition.

Then comes the climax of his story.

After his shift from work, his best friend (who is also his workmate at the same time, his housemate) asked him to have a time off and watch a movie.

So he accepted his friend's offer and they watched a movie.

After the movie, he felt the flashing effect again in his left eye. But this time, it took more minutes than the usual.

So he looked for a bench to sit on and waited for the flashing effect to be totally gone.

Not knowing what happened, his friend asked him if he's alright and he said no. At that instance, he felt his vision was getting slooower by a second. And he can hardly keep up with the people roaming around the mall.

So his friend took him by the hand and led him outside to go home.

Are you wondering who can that boy be in my story.

Well, that's me.

"Woah, but you don't look like you have an eye condition,"

You might say that because my appearance deceives you (not to mention I look like a normal handsome and cute boy next door. Just joking around --- with a smiley face)

Anyways, that was the times like I was watching the Matrix movies in slow motion. I felt like I was in the movie myself. It might felt good when you're in a live movie (laughing).

I still have those flashing thingy as I write this one.

I even consulted a doctor of what my sickness really is.

He told me that the name of my eye condition was ocular myopic degeneration.

What's that? 

I don't even know at first what it meant. But my doctor told me that my retina is getting thinner and might get detached in the long run. So there is a possibility that I may incur blindness.

Oh, did I mention above that I DO have blindness in my left eye before ever consulting my doctor? 

Well, it's just partial blindness. Just like a thin strip of bacon placed in my left eye.

I asked the doctor if there is a cure for my condition.

And you know what he said?

A big NO.

Oh. My. Gosh. What will happen to me? Will I never see people again? Even the ones I loved? Even the girlfriends I have? (that's too much to ask. I'll with one. Wink)

I even asked God if there is still a future for me regardless of my disability.

True enough, He heeded my question.

He replied me back in a form of a retreat two weeks ago.

I have learned so much from it that it reminded me of what kind of journey I will be taking ahead of me.

This eye condition of mine proves that I am unique from the rest. Aside from the good looks (no kidding, right?).

It also proves that even if my eye condition will never ever be cured, I can still go on with my journey in life. Showing off the best of my abilities either through dancing (as you have read in my story), signing (I do love singing as well) and through writing (I wanted to share what I can share).

Through all the drama that I have in my life, It was an eye-opener.

God instilled so much talent in me that I should start sharing with all of you.

Imperfect as I may be just because I have this eye condition, there is more to life than being frantic about it.

Friends, enjoy the imperfections you have. Enjoy the life ahead of you.

It will become your eye-opening journey towards life.