While reading this article I anticipated it to be a story about a miracle of how Virgil had a successful surgery that allowed him to finally see after being blind for 45 years. However, what we would assume to be a medical phenomenon for a blind person to finally gain sight and to see the world in a whole new perspective actually becomes a challenge for Virgil. He struggles to understand the concept of viewing things that are three-dimensional. At the end of the article, Virgil goes blind again. This is almost a sense of relief in that he struggled so much to reunderstand the world with sight.
This story really makes you think about the importance of sight. For someone who lived their whole life blind, they learn how to perceive things differently. Being suddenly able to view everything they were never able to creates a whole new obstacle; it’s like starting all over from the beginning and relearning how to perceive the world again. Not everyone can see, but everyone can perceive. Being deprived of the sense of sight doesn’t prevent a person from “viewing” even though they physically can’t “view.”
