When I look around, I see color. The shades can
range from vibrant to dull but they are incredible to admire. Color can be
taken for granted if you’ve seen it all your life. People's eyes glaze over
color without stopping to examine each shade closer.
I was bored one day and got sucked down into the
black hole of youtube recommendations. I came across multiple reaction videos
to people receiving special, tinted glasses as a gift. These glasses were made
by Enchroma, a brand that claimed to cure the colorblind.
I believe I've watched nearly all of the
available reaction videos on the internet. I found it fascinating to see a
person who had been living their whole life without the same range of color as
others, finally see their familiar world change.
The reactions to the glasses varied from looks
of gratitude, to excitement at an unexplored new world, although all held the
same look of awe as they suddenly saw color. Purple was a huge shock to many,
and it brought many grown men to tears. The most common type of colorblindness
is the inability to see the colors red or green. Many families gave the
recipient the sunglasses outside, and the wonderful awe they expressed for the
bright greens they began to see or colorful autumn leaves and flowers. One
father was in awe at the deep blue color of his young daughter’s eyes. He cried
happy tears as he studied them.
Noticing color could become so instinctive for
me if I didn’t take the time to recognize why it was special. After watching
people be so fascinated with colors I had always seen, I took a step back. I
attempted to look the world as if I’d never seen it before, and I found myself
once again captivated by color.
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