May 29 - Inside Out and Outside In

Remembering my last post, I asked Lyle how he felt when I failed to recognize him. He said that at first he had thought that I was just joking around. Not for a moment did he think that I hadn’t known who he was. Basically, he thought that the whole experience was just a bit weird.

I imagine that this might be what it is like for other people when I fail to recognize them. I think that my appearance is much the same as it has always been, and so people who are sighted have no difficulty in looking at that outside appearance and knowing who I am. On the other hand, my eyes, which look out from the inside don’t recognize faces at all.

The eyes are the window to the soul – I think that some wise person said that once. While this might be clear glass for someone who is looking into my eyes from the outside, for my eyes looking out from the inside, that glass is a frosted pane.