True Sight - Marvel Optics Essay

Helen Keller said, “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” What does that mean to you?

In today’s hyper-connected world, it becomes easy to become distracted by stimulus and lose track of where you are, where you’ve been, and where you are going. Simply, we forget the impact our lives can have on others’ through even the smallest of interactions. Helen Keller’s quote on vision brilliantly reminds us that every day, people who have potential and opportunity to change lives — be that change large or small — forget that everything we do has an impact. Keller challenges us to think: Am I one of those people? We all have the opportunity to change a life, and many of us also have the physical opportunity to visually interpret the world around us - sight. Even with this gift of sight, many of us lack the inspiration to visualize the changes we can make in this world to improve it.

For years, I blamed my lack of access to higher education on the fact I was an immigrant and the fact my family didn’t have as much as others. Yes, while that was largely true, I was missing the bigger picture: I could find a way, I just had to break out of the tunnel view I had. I had 20/20 eyesight, but I failed to recognize that true vision is creativity. Vision is being able to identify in yourself where you can make change, where you can improve, and where you can take that personal improvement and help others with it. Vision is non-complacency to what you see around you; vision is the molding of your world into something better. For me, Keller is telling us that actual vision is finding the path to impactful goals, and staying on it regardless of what you believe you were given. So let’s use our sight, to do more than just see.

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