A Sight To Behold

Eyes. Are said to be the 'windows to your soul'. Yet sometimes I highly doubt whether the human race realizes that we have either. Daily mail ( the website) strongly believes it though. An article I came across on the site talked about how patterns in the iris vary with each person and can indicate traits and personalities  Pretty fancy stuff! It is quite an interesting article for anyone interested in science, or just eyes in general. Moving along, I was watching one of my favourite shows today, Supernatural, and before that, I took a nice, rather long look at my burger and fries, after which I gave a whole new definition to the words 'glutton' and 'devour'. My mother, darling woman that she is, decided that I deserved a righteous amount of grease and fat after two weeks of vigourous exercise, vegetable juices, and a whole lot of other nutritional shennanigans.
Key words here being 'look' and 'watching', I came to the ingenious and the abominably late conclusion that I have eyes. This being my very first post, I may strike you as some sort of eccentric entity, which I can guarantee you, I most certainly am. So if you do judge me as mentioned, you're right on track! Congratulations!

I have black irises. Or is the plural irii? Anyway, black. Or Dark Brown, because apparently they're both the same when it comes to eyes. I had this fascination for the way people managed to shove little plastic circles, what we all know as lenses, into their eyes, which to me, initially looked suicidal. First time I witnessed a lens-popping event was when my sister converted from spectacles to the little miracles and I can only remember thinking, " Bro, WHAT THE BLEEDING HELL ARE YOU SHOVING INTO YOUR EYE SOCKET". Of course, it didn't come out in those exact words considering I was 9 and my usual immediate reaction to situations that I found weird or uncomfortable was to laugh. Or guffaw. Wait. I still do that!
So much much later, when I was in the prime of my teenagehood, I decided I wanted green eyes. Considering the football lenses were way beyond my budget, I stooped down to green. In my opinion, green is an astonishing eye colour. So for all you lovely people that come across this blog and have green eyes, I might just have a soft spot for you!
I wore it about 7 times. Until one day I dropped it onto a ground of gravel, shoved it back into my eye, ( don't ask me how I managed to find it, but I did. Sharp eyes? ) and got home just to take it out and tear it because of my ring. Talk about sheer darn stinking luck. But those green bits of plastic shall forever have a place in my heart.

I love watching shows, videos of my favourite bands headbanging and tearing up the stage, the foam on my cappuccinos, my dogs stealing random milk packets and sticks of butter from the neighbours, the food I'm about to eat, my sister acting like a complete nutter and making me laugh till I need to pee.  And fact is, I wouldn't be able to do ANY of this without my two gorgeous "windows to the soul". It's funny how normal an 'eye' is, and yet how simple it also is to take it for granted.

According to the World Health Organisation, 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide; 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision. 90 5 of the world's visually impaired live in developing countries ( not surprised ). I'm not one of those people. And gosh am I grateful! Took me a long time, but that's what late realizations are for.

When I die, I'm having my eyes donated. Possibly my organs too. The thought of my body being dissected, not pleasant. Or someone gouging out my eyes. But it's the thought that counts, agreed?

It's amazing sometimes, the sights you come across. I've seen ALOT. I'm 20 and eat carrots every alternate day. The thing I trust the most other than myself are my eyes. 'Coz what you see, is what you believe. Word of mouth and sounds are misleading. Eyes never lie. But the sights I've seen I'm saving for future blog posts.

Disclaimer # 1 : I'm EXTREMELY random, sometimes inhumanly graphic and have the ability to make you wish you were wearing diapers. jokes. or is it?

Think about it though. Wake up tomorrow, and spend a day noticing the things you see. You'll be surprised at how relaxing it is.

Just for kicks, here's a bunch of my favourite sights in no particular order apart from the ones mentioned above:

1. Anyone or anything smiling. Yes things smile too. Or if they don't, draw on one.
2. The beautiful game of football. Any match I can get my eyes on.
3. My  music collection ( so far, the grand total is 900 GB and 2677 bands/artists)
4. The little scrobbling icon.
5. That pain in the arse bit of elongated, magically elastic cheese that refuses to leave the other pieces of pizza
6. People I love.
7. Wildlife in any form and species.
8. Another person laughing hysterically.
9. Cars that go past 200km/hour. SUCH a turn on
10. A steaming mug of coffee
11. Gojira.
12. Landing at your destination airport. ( I love flying, but butt cramps are NOT fun)
13. Coming across a book called " The Book of Farts". Oh how I wept in abundant joy on seeing such a thing exist.
14. The parentals and their eccentric behavioural patterns. ( Somehow I've always believed that they are indeed an entirely different species)
15. People drumming on bald heads.
16. Guitarists ripping power chords.
17. Cartoons, that seem to be immortal.
18. Dylan Moran
19. Johnny Depp shish kebabing himself from one blob of land to another in Pirates Of The Carribean 2.
20. Jar Jar Binks.
21. Birds pooping on people, cars or just with all the indifference in the world.
22. The Sydney City Skyline at night along the waters.
23. Water.
24. Demons and the like getting ass whoopin's in Supernatural.
25. A person's face when I make spit bubbles or laugh like a hyena in public.

Top 25 should do for now. I'll keep updating you on special sights, be they, funny, downright gross or fascinatingly lame.

For now I leave you with a video of the people I admire, adore, idolize, respect. call it what you may. My heart is all for them.  They are the reason for many intelligent decisions and realizations in my life. You'll be hearing about them frequently, along with many others. And very soon you'll know why these people I will actually agree are human, and I don't mean just categorically.

Again, one of my favourite sights, and it's watching them. =)

DO NOT SKIP THIS. I mean it.

Gojira.

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Amazed? Beyond all possible measure? There's more where that came from. Joe, Mario, Christian and Jean-Michel to be specific.

Cheers and much nonsensical love,

Prat.