[nfb-talk] New THOUGHT PROVOKER 114- Where Did My Friends Go?

[dmgina]

Yes I understand some what you are saying.
A car horn is the same way.
One sounds like another to me.
Or my in laws think if we are outside we are ok.
So they stop from time to time to check in.
They don't learn much but they at least check in.
Twice a year smile.
I am glad you can still see something, but also glad you have met so many 
persons.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "nfbtalk" <NFB-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: [nfb-talk] New THOUGHT PROVOKER 114- Where Did My Friends Go?


> NFBtalk listers
> RE:  Where Did My Friends Go?
>
> The newest THOUGHT PROVOKER has special significance for those of us who
> have once been sighted and are now blind.  The TP looks for suggestions on
> how to help our friends hang in there with us after we go blind.  See what
> you can add.  If you have not read the PROVOKER, it
> follows.  Recall that I collect responses and post them upon my web site 
> for
> all the WWW to read and learn from and that URL is-
> Http://thoughtprovoker.info  If you wish to receive THOUGHT PROVOKERS sent
> directly to you, just write me and ask, at-  newmanrl at cox.net
>
> THOUGHT PROVOKER 114
> Where Did My Friends Go?
>
> "Well yeah, I'll step up.Ah, I mean, here I sit feeling pretty frustrated,
> lonely and if I tell the truth a little scared.  Cause, not only have I 
> lost
> most of my sight, but I seem to have lost most of my friends, too, and I
> don't understand it."  Said Larry.  He was the first of the group of
> severely visually impaired individuals to speak up and answer that day's
> topic question, "Where did my friends go?"
>
> "Totally."  Jumped in Bonnie, "Go blind and you find out who your real
> friends are!"
>
> The general stir among the dozen people in the group of peers indicated to
> all that this topic struck a universal cord.  They had been meeting for
> several sessions and had gotten comfortable sharing in this setting.
> Individually they had gone through the usual set of feelings a person has
> when facing a group of strangers and over the course of their meetings had
> accepted the mix of personalities that made up the character of the group.
> Now they needed little guidance to get their feelings out and flowing.
>
> "Can you believe it." spoke up Kelly a woman that the group knew had ten
> siblings, "Even your own brothers and sisters can blow you off!  Like, I 
> use
> to be the first to step up when one of my family needed a babysitter or 
> one
> of their kids needed a ride to a ball game and their parents couldn't take
> them.  And now that I can't drive, do you think I get a call to see if I
> need help with transportation?"
>
> "Yeah, I've got the same thing with this sorority I belong to."  Said 
> Sara.
> "Back in college I was all idealistic, wanted to change the world, you 
> know,
> make a difference.  So I go through the initiation to join this group and
> you should have seen it.  We had this big ceremony, holding candles, said
> all these memorized lines, pledging all these life-long commitments and 
> felt
> really touchy-feely about sisterhood and all that.  And can you believe 
> it,
> now when I can no longer see their faces, I don't see them!"
>
> "Well, not to only talk on the negative side of all this with friends."
> Threw in Janet.  "But how many of you when you do see a friend, they get 
> all
> pity-eyed on you and want to do everything for you?  Stuff that you can do
> for yourself and don't need help with!"
>
> "Or try this on for size."  Volunteered James.  "Just yesterday I was out
> for a walk, met up with a neighbor, we were standing there, talking.  And
> you know how some of us can still see some things?  Well there I was, 
> can't
> see this guy's face, but with my peripheral vision I see this metal object
> on the edge of the sidewalk, obviously a coin shining with reflective
> sunlight.  So I reach down, pick it up, it's a dime and I hand it to the
> guy.  He says, 'You're not blind, you can see better than me!"
>
> "Oh yeah, talking about not seeing people's faces!  What about those times
> when a friend accuses you of being stuck up, because they tell you they
> drove by or maybe waved from across the room and you didn't acknowledge
> them!"  Added in Leslie.
>
> "Okay guys."  Interjected that day's discussion leader.  "A lot has been
> thrown out here.  We've identified a bunch of problems, the symptoms as it
> were, but how about getting down to the cause and more importantly the
> solutions?"
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
> E-Mail- newmanrl at cox.net
> Web Site- thoughtprovoker.info
>
>


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