Hope, you have already read part I. This week, we will try to show how we don't have any excuses to have sight but devoid of vision. We borrow Helen Keller's infamous statement and hammer the issue further. This is our belief that, in the end, you will be thirsty to conceive your life time vision and pursue it so that you may also impact your generation as Helen Keller, a great visionary, did.

There is no question that sight is one of the critical functional organs that performs the most important duty to live a fulfilling life on earth. This is true for almost all animals except a few exceptions. The use of sight among animals varies depending up on their ‘call’. Some animals need extra ordinarily performing sight than just to see barely. One of the animals that really need such powerful anoint is eagle. It is estimated that an eagle can see another eagle soaring at a distance of 25 - 65 kilometers.

Whether animals like eagle which demands a more specialized and far reaching sight or others who use their sight less extensively, most animals might not endure to survive without sight. However, human can survive and even succeed without having sight. The best example in the latter case is Helen Keller. Author Theodore Zeldin wrote in his book that "no history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller". He even went to compare her achievement with the great warrior Alexander the Great. He said, "her overcoming of blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person."

The success of Helen Keller was not impaired because she didn’t have sight but many of us fail not because we don’t have sight but we lack vision. If lack of sight didn’t stop her from envisioning, those of us who have sight- do we really have excuses from conceiving vision and impact our world? We don’t have any strong excuses; if we want to be honest with ourselves. She didn’t sympathize such personalities rather rebuked them. She said, "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." One of the synonym words for pathetic is pitiful. Don’t be mad on her. She had the authenticity to call those of us with sights but devoid of vision Pathetic. We rather should seriously question whether we are complacent and think that having sight alone renders us a security to live more than pitiful life.

If someone is trying to make things religious, the Bible makes the case worst than Helen Keller’s perception about the lack of vision. It says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18) Understandably, the Bible talks about people who have sight but that doesn’t immunize them from being perished. Sight can get us along to navigate our territory on earth but our scope, as people who would like to get fulfilled, demands more than a mere sight. Unless we upgrade ourselves and demand more than a mere sight living and deny sight to dictate our move, we are deemed to perish before reaching the territory God saw for us to occupy as our inheritance. To reach our height and get fulfilled, we need to have vision. Make it today that the days to live by sight alone is over!

 The visionless syndrome is treatable if people are in a position to admit that they don’t have vision. The complication comes when people assume that they have vision and they are fine with where they are and their destination. You might have already heard some people arguing that they are visionary just because they have yearly resolution. Or some think that they have vision because they have some agendas like improving their social or academic status. These are great and nothing is wrong in doing so but we shouldn’t confuse them with having life time Vision. Surprisingly, most people may think that they have vision of some kind just because they imagine and try to visualize their next move and action. The aforementioned people might think that the above scripture or Helen’s quote are not for them. They are complacent and don’t strive to know more and are not thirsty about vision.

We are honest when we find out the defect in our sight or when it comes clear that our eyes couldn’t help us see some tiny or distant objects. We look for a binocular and humble enough when we are clear about our inability to see distant views. We are docile when a doctor recommends us to wear eye glasses. We are obedient and look for microscope while we are in the laboratory and to observe tiny microscopic matters. If we are honest, humble, and are looking for help when we learn that our mere eyes couldn’t give us the amount of clarity we need, why not we admit that our soul and spirit requires having vision to stretch and help us reach the height of our destiny?

 There is also one big misunderstanding out there where people are using dream, illusion, and vision interchangeably. However, there is a huge difference between them. Vision is very distinct than its counterparts. On the other hand, for instance, illusion is defined as an erroneous mental representation or something many people believe that is false. But who, in his right mind, entertains an erroneous mental representation and embrace what is believed to be false. That means we might not be sure in the beginning whether a particular idea in our mind is an erroneous mental representation; we might rather thought that it is believably a true picture. This is a delicate line we should walk carefully. It is very dangerous when someone considers illusions and fantasies as visions. 

Please remain tuned to read more as we further discuss details about vision from the perspective of the Bible, its advantages, some features of vision like whether vision is time bound or not, for self gratification and interest or selfless causes, and more.