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There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her, "now that you can see the world, will you marry me?" The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him.
Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying..... "Just take care of my eyes dear." i'll always love you forever..
I don't think I have to explain what this means, you tell me.
oh man! that's rough. is it meant to be a joke? kind of made my heart sink, don't know why.
i think it means be careful what you say and or wish for
OH wow. That just made me cry. I, I, wow, I hope never to be put in that situation. I mean, I don't hate my blindness, but there are times I wish I could see... Wow...
If I'd said to Matilda sure sweetheart I'll marry you once I'm walking with a new spine, she'd have run a mile.
And if she was daft enough to hand over her 3rd vertebre,I couldn't live with myself, it would ruin everything.
I think the boyfriend is very weak to agree to that
Some of you have the wrong Idea. The question was, What does this story teach us? It doesn't matter how weak the boyfriend was. no it was not meant for a joke. The Joke bord is 3 blocks and make a left. it teaches us unconditional love, ladies and gentalmen. the boy donated his eyes so that his girlfriend could see because of the love he felt for her. It also teaches us to be greatful of what we are given and to learn how to give to others. this girl was upset about being blind, right her boyfriend selflessly gave his eyes. she didn't marry him and he still loved her anyways. how do you think that girl felt when she recieved that letter from him. we never know. Now that I prevoked some thoughts I want you to answer that question. Use what god gave you.
The Prince
The story is ridiculous, and so is the explanatory sermon.
well, then Sense you are a reclusive thinker, tell me why you think that or are you to closed minded to understand. People like you who make those selfish statements proves my point. Some are just destened to make an ass out of themselves aren't they?
Well, Prince, I am not going to get into a pointless discussion of who is being open-minded or closed-minded, but I'll tell you why I think your story is ridiculous. I am dismayed that so many younger blind people today have bought into the idea that a blind person is supposed to go around smiling vacuously and talking about how wonderful everything is, proclaiming that blindness is just a minor inconvenience. The blind girl in your story has as much right as anyone else to be honest with herself about her feelings. Blindness sucks, and we could all benefit from indulging in a good scream every once in awhile. I certainly won't deny that I hate being blind, but it hasn't stopped me from making a better life for myself than most of the sighted people around me have. If the boyfriend really loved the girl, in any meaningful sense of the word, he would have tried to persuade her that they could make a go of it despite the hateful fact of her blindness. Failing that, he would have at least asked her what she thought of his sick idea of blinding himself for her, rather than doing it arbitrarily and then expecting her to marry him. His action does not strike me as selfless, but masochistic and manipulative.
interesting thaught on it. hehehe
Upon entering gives a bow of respect by way of a nod to Black Prince as well as all who have posted here ~ Greetings
Back some time ago this particular writing I came across on another set of Boards and so many were the thots it inspired within myself as it gave to me to look deep within. On A Journey of Becoming and in that Becoming.. hopefully Becoming one given to be more understanding. What can I say except that the Journey continues…
Don’t know what it is except every time I hear this writing it causes me to consider Matthew 7:1-5 …please note, this is not intended to give a sermon, rather what personally I glean from this writing… what this writing inspires within me, my spirit, my soul… of where I am at.
For it is that not the physical eyes I am considering with this writing rather the vision produced of deep heart understanding as it were…
Sometimes it seems I am so lacking of understanding of where another one is at in their own personal Life Journey, totally in the dark as it were to what another has/is experiencing and yet I fail to realize this… I fail to come to grips, as it were, that I am so in need of understanding enlightenment as on my way I make venture… blundering about in relationships due to having as it were 2x4s of lumbering boards crammed so deeply into the heart of where my understanding ought to be that it gives to me to block out where that other one near-by is truly at..
I realize that this writing that Black Prince is sharing is thot portrayed…. and yet going to this secondary thot of mine…of “heart understanding”… if only, if only donations could within, deep within where that place of understanding resides could be transplanted…. Sometimes what all it takes to receive understanding and sometimes it seems so out of reach. Then sometimes it is simply being thankful for the ones close by who stay in spite of my lacking at times of heart understanding, who love me when I am at my most unlovable self, and when I don’t hardly know the way to turn… and they simply stay, giving me to know I go not alone.
For me over the span of years, it was years ago being enabled, rather knowing that in all fairness there was a need to disclose my worst self, my medically diagnosed at eighteen years of age incurable self that few knew of, to the one that had asked me to be his wife, and when thinking that perhaps he would turn and run away as fast as anything he rather gave me the greatest surprise of all by giving me to know he was going nowhere and rather gently taking me in his arms, giving the most tender of a kiss that I ever can remember him giving me and saying, “all the more I am staying…. You need me.”
That kiss I don’t think I would have ever forgotten and then again perhaps it means more in looking back over these years in passing for kisses received over these last 7 years have been so few and far between due to acquiring Bells Palsy that left me with a facial paralysis that left me for a while in a state of blindness, deafness, barely able to swallow, speech affected to where many words uttered could not be understood and unable to smile with a mouth so numb. And through it all he has remained. There was a time when he took over and still a once in awhile when stress is such that my Bells gets to acting up…well, he knows me so well that he speaks the words that I desire to say and can’t get out… To be known so well that even when a face is literally locked, frozen in place…to come into the realization that he still knows when I am given to smile. (well, inside anyways) For beyond my face he sees and has at times been given to look directly into my heart.
The following is the Amplified Version rather than the KJV of Matthew 7:1-5 that I made mention of.
Matthew 7
1 Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
2 For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you.
3 Why do you [a]stare from without at the [b]very small particle that is in your brother's eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam [c]of timber that is in your own eye?
4 Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam [d]of timber in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye.
In conclusion, for me it is coming to grips with those 2x4s, those beams of timber as it were, that are plunged at times so deeply within myself, those 2x4s being qualities that make for such a disastrous wreck of my life, producing a shallowness and causing for me to not be real (well, as real as I can be at a given moment)… well, until those 2x4s, those beams, are removed and maybe sometimes just being recognized would be of help, well, then the minor specks, those slivers of wood, those small particles as it were of imperfections in the lives of others I have no business considering…
Connie ~ Grace
Well said Reclusive Thinkger.
Firstly the girl is so obsessed with her blindness she doesn't want to marry someone, never heard of a person acting like that, if someone refused a relationship because they're blind it doesn't make them noble, just pathetic.
Secondly the word "too" is out of place .. her boy friend being blind too doesn't work since the girl is, at this point, sighted. Too would infer that the boy friend had been blind all along and she didn't know it, which wouldn't make her winner of the miss smart award.
Finally, she has every right to decide that the boy is butt ugly and dump him, if those values are something that matter to her, the story makes him look pretty sad, this isn't being good for goodness sake, his sacrifice was clearly made to force the girl to marry him, I would not confuse manipulation with selflessness any day, those are distinctly different things and it's very important to be able to tell between them.
I guess my only thought has to be that the letter must've been in braille, seeing as she could not read print and he could nardly write well in print having lost his eyes, which would be easy for him if he had been blind all along, if not he must have gotten someone to transcribe his letter or, heck, may be he just sent her an email, much easier.
Hmm, yeah, this post really does make me wonder.