Code name: Operation Blind Faith
Description: For a day (that’s at least 12 hours) I will live as if I were blind. I will need a guide, (most likely Laura) and I will be doing every day things, such as shopping for groceries, lounging around home, playing guitar, listening to music etc. Also stuff like going to Rasputin’s to buy a cd or two.
Motivation: People are very selfish, including me at times. I want to know what it’s like to feel the underprivileged perspective on things. I hope that by doing this it will give me a new hindsight to life and possible help me to enjoy it more. If not, then I know it will make me feel fortunate to have the things in life that so many people overlook.
Preparation: It would need to be a weekend or a day that I have off from work because I would probably be fired considering that being blind is a disability and I probably never would have been hired by my employer. I also need some sort of way to go out into public without having anybody notice im not really blind. That means no blindfolds; and I don’t trust myself to keep my eyes closed. I was thinking maybe buying some wrap around sunglasses and spray painting the inside of them black so I can’t see out of them. That could work. Of course when I am out of public, I will go back to a blindfold because that is much easier. I also may need to buy a blind cane, but it probably won’t be needed as I will have a guide, but then again I will need it at home. I am not sure exactly when I will do this, all I know is that I really want to.
Motivation: People are very selfish, including me at times. I want to know what it’s like to feel the underprivileged perspective on things. I hope that by doing this it will give me a new hindsight to life and possible help me to enjoy it more. If not, then I know it will make me feel fortunate to have the things in life that so many people overlook.
Preparation: It would need to be a weekend or a day that I have off from work because I would probably be fired considering that being blind is a disability and I probably never would have been hired by my employer. I also need some sort of way to go out into public without having anybody notice im not really blind. That means no blindfolds; and I don’t trust myself to keep my eyes closed. I was thinking maybe buying some wrap around sunglasses and spray painting the inside of them black so I can’t see out of them. That could work. Of course when I am out of public, I will go back to a blindfold because that is much easier. I also may need to buy a blind cane, but it probably won’t be needed as I will have a guide, but then again I will need it at home. I am not sure exactly when I will do this, all I know is that I really want to.