A PRICELESS POSSESSION... Lets take a quick elementary test... how many basic senses are we endowed with at birth, and name each of them. Is it one?. two.. four? Im sure well agree the answer is five, and these five senses are SIGHT...HEARING... TASTE... TOUCH... SMELL. And now to pose a serious question. Supposing we were faced with the sacrificing of four of these five basic senses, which one would we retain? If we are going to go along with the average, we definitely would retain the sense of SIGHT. And yet in so many occasions how lightly we treat this most Priceless Possession. The eye is so much like a camera, and yet so intangible in value. A camera consists primarily of a lens, usually rather expensive. This lens gathers light rays, focuses them, and forms an image in a sensitized film, thus mechanically creating a picture. The eye, too, has very valuable lens. The eye also consists of the retina, iris, cornea and optic nerve. These five members of the human body, in an almost supernatural fashion, coordinate their activities to transmit impulses that provide vision, the miracle of color, perception and the ability to learn. Eighty percent of everything we know comes through the eyes. It is a moral obligation to protect our eyes, but we still neglect them. I recall investigating an accident in which a man lost the sight of one eye when a grinding wheel exploded. This man wore a pair of safety goggles at the time of the accident, but unfortunately they were on his forehead. The ironic part of this story is that the injured person was an ardent camera man, owned many valuable cameras, and the lens of each was well protected with a leather cap type cover, this to eliminate the slightest scratch or piece of lint. Something that could be judged by the amount of money was worth protecting, but his own sight was taken for granted. Medical science today work near miracles, but we were given just two eyes and science will not replace them. Lets keep them and take care of them. (nccer#10496016)anr.nccer.org/ov
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:55:55 +0000
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