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Our son Surdas was born blind. But that never stopped him from having better-than-normal vision. Mother, whose quotes have always been insightful, says, “Foresight is the best substitute for sight. It allows you to see something that everyone else is blind to, and to envision something that no one else has ever seen. When it comes to vision, the eyes do not always have it.” A person with foresight has the unique ability to think and plan for the future with imagination and wisdom. We call these people visionaries, because they have the foresight to see what is invisible to everyone else and bring it into reality. They see things as they can be. They see things as they should be, not just the way they are. Their visions are the building blocks of the future. Mother says, “A visionary takes a set of Legos and turns it into a time machine. What the world does not see, the builder has already envisioned. Superman may be able to see through things, but a person with vision will see things through.” Mother has inspired our entire extended family to always see things through. In doing so, he has given us better-than-normal vision. Surdas is in every sense of the word a visionary. He believes his blindness gives him insights that sighted people often don’t recognize. It allows his imagination to run wild, unfettered by the weight of how things appear when they become too familiar. It allows his other senses to more than compensate for the one he is missing. It allows him to perceive things from a new perspective. He has vision where others merely have sight. From the moment we first laid eyes on him, he taught us the difference between having sight and having vision. And, in doing so, he has opened our eyes in more ways than one. Mother believes that people with sight, but who lack vision, lead normal lives, because they are blind to the magic in the world. But Surdas’s life is anything but normal. Surdas has vision beyond sight. Life without vision is merely living. It is a place where dreams and fantasies come to die. Life with vision is creating. It is a place where dreams and fantasies come to life. Surdas intends to lead his life as a creator … a builder of dreams … a life-giver to possibilities. He intends for all his dreams and fantasies to come to life. Surdas doesn’t need a mirror to see who and what he is. He sees it within.
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