When the world goes BLACK.

Even after being people with two eyes we still cannot figure out what is going around us, we still cannot see what is ‘actually’ going around us, unable to see the pain in people’s eyes, unable to listen to the sorrow in their voice but suddenly when we are not left with these two orbs so different from one other, we suddenly hear the grief, the love and every other emotion that we have considered abstract. That is when you make use of our senses putting all of them to use, ‘using’ them like the way they’re supposed to.

It does not take anything to say, but with experience nothing needs to be said it speaks for itself. I experienced it, for the most defining moments of my life, where everything was felt not just on the surface but felt to the bones. Being blindfolded seems like a petty thing, but being blindfolded and feeling that makes all the difference.

The activity that gave me this realisation was seemed just a play of two, with one person blindfolded and the other guiding the other through the surroundings, easy it seemed and not very impactful initially, but once the game started I realized what was actually happening, my guide was the only person I could trust, she was the one to help me through the darkness, while I experienced the unexpected.

A metaphor to my new journey to NLSIU, where all my senses were required equally, where I had to trust my mentors without doubting having faith in wherever they were leading me to. My teachers would become that pillar of strength who would help me build the empire of my dreams.

The blindfold was not just any other game but a lesson for the future and life.