See, Speak, Hear No Evil
See No Evil
Speak No Evil
Hear No Evil
This is a familiar saying for someone who does not want to know or get involved with a conflict or trouble. They just want to wash their hands clean. The less they know the better it is. But then if you think about it, what it would really be like if you really can’t see, speak or hear? Have you ever thought about it? Now, since I can’t speak - I have been thinking a lot about it. Which would be worst?
All my life I have been talking and all of a sudden a great part of me has been taken away. If I was born with it, maybe it might not be so bad and would be easier to accept. I would never know what talking is all about and I would have learned how to communicate through sign language or other means. Sometimes I just can’t believe that I can never talk again. And it is a great effort for me to have to adapt to this new lifestyle. Yes, there is only one word to describe it all – FRUSTRATING!
But then I was thinking what would happen if I can’t see. Just imagine all of a sudden sight has been taken away from you. Your world will be in total darkness. The light in your life has been shut off. You will never see the colours and beauty of the day or the moon and the stars in the night. Just imagine you have to live without sight. How are you going to find you way through life? Once you could drive and now you can’t, you have to rely on people to get you around. No more TV, video, cinema, and computer. You will never know what the colours of your clothes are. Or the how your hair looks like. And what about coping with your daily routine at home? Like I said if you are born blind, that’s another matter all together. But you are not! You have seen the colours of the rainbow. The sea waves, trees, mountains, and birds in the sky. You enjoyed watching football, F1 racing, badminton, etc…and suddenly you can never see all those things again. Just imagine! It will be devastating!
And how about not being able to hear? You be living in a silent world. A world without sound. If you watch a movie, you have to rely and read the subtitles- if they are correctly translated. No more music. And you won’t be able to hear your own voice when you speak – in other words you will not be able to control the pitch or tone of your voice. You would not know how loud or soft your voice is. You have to either learn how to read lips or people have to write to communicate to you. Just like I have to write to communicate to people or they can read my lips if they know how.
You can think of hundreds of difficulties or setbacks apart from some of the things I mentioned above. Well, as for me I guess not being able to talk is not so bad compared with not being able to see or hear. The only setback is you can’t talk. Of course it’s difficult but still it’s easier to get on with life – I think.
Our eyes can never see enough to be satisfied; our ears can never hear enough
No one has ever been able to tame the tongue. Ecc 1:8, Jam 3:8