Visual perception of different individuals
Few weeks ago, I took Precious, my angel to a eye specialist for routine checkup. After checkup, doctor told me that she was colorblind i.e inability to distinguish the colors basically red, green and blue. Thank god, it was of mild type and won’t affect her daily tasks. I was shocked to know that she was colorblind and we didn’t even realize about it till she was on her sweet 16. Though I knew it was genetic disorder and had no cure, I was eager to know who had such gene. Is it me or Ritika, my wife? So, me along with Ritika, went for checkup the following day. I couldn’t trust my ears when I heard Ritika was colorblind. I was ashamed that I was unaware about it, even though we were together for last 22 years.
On the way back home, I asked Ritika pointing a seat cover, “Hey, Rits the cover is red, can’t you see it.” She replied,”Yep I know its red, I can see its dark red.” According, the eye specialist, the colorblind person cannot see red, green or blue. They just had adapted their mind and eye to distinguish the colors based on their intensities. So, I was stuck with the question what is color. Is it what our eye decides or our mind decides. I realized that the actual dark red color I am seeing can be a light red to somebody else. But its our adaptation of the perception of color when we were toddler to present day distinguishes different colors. So, its the perception that distinguishes two or more contrasting facts.
I always find myself in a cage of questions related to different social problems prevailing in our society and want get out of the cage. And I am supremely confident that every problem has solutions. After the incident, I am fully aware that the cause for such issues are socio-cultural color blinded perceptions about different circumstances which is transfered to us from our social norms and traditions. And, only solution is to identify and correct the defective socio-cultural gene sequence responsible for such blindness. I am damn sure that identification and correction of such gene sequence will not only solve but eradicate it from the society.
So, its our responsibility to search, identify and correct the defective sequence to make our society a Shangri-La.
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