Prompt:You lose your sight along with everyone else on earth in an event called the great blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor, and surface has been painted with the same message- DONT TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE…

I live in a world of blindness. I wasn’t always blind, but after a while, the change makes you forget what the world looks like. I desperately wanted to remember how the flowers looked and how the sunrise beamed through the blinds on a Sunday morning, the way the sky grayed before it was going to rain, but I couldn’t. Two years of blindness has had such an effect on me, two years of lost memories and time. It wasn’t just me who had lost the ability to see, it was every human being in an event commonly known as The Great Blinding. But that didn’t make it any less of a burden. Some people shut down. Others, like me, learned to live with it.

Now, two years later, I still vividly remember the last time I saw my mother. I always wonder as to why the great blindness came to be. Was this a form of punishment? Is there something we don’t know? Would you not if one day you could see and the next not? Wouldn’t you demand answers no one had? Because two years ago, on this very day, I forgot how the world looks, could never manage to complete certain daily tasks, and struggled through life itself. Today, coincidentally, was my best friend’s birthday as well as the day that ruined my life.