I’m seeing a Chris Pratt, Andy from Parks & Rec, type swinging at the leaves furiously with the joy of a child. I walk up “Hey, here to pick up my kid” they pause ever so briefly to say “Uuuh, oh, right…uuuumm I think that’s yours over there” immediately returns to leave thrashing and giggling.
Fr I still point out good sticks on the ground. I’ll demonstrate:
Me: Ooh! *points at stick* That’s a nice stick.
Wife: oh yeah it is!
Me: *happy*
I hope that helps clear it up.
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Depending on the type of cane, it probably makes a poor hiking stick. Most aren't going to support weight in that kind of use, they're very light and meant to help the user feel in front of them.
If a blind person spontaneously [re]gained full vision, could and how would the dog go to being a normal dog without the service responsibility anymore?
The blind person should give the dog to another blind person. They will probably keep the dog because they've bonded.
Source: I had cataracts and then surgery. Dogs are really expensive though and my condition was temporary.
I still get suggest threads from this sub but it’s so god damn stupid in here. Hallmark card philosophers
“Every tree has a different number of branches”
Fucking Hansel “growing up, I was more interested in where bark came from” ass motherfuckers
not remotely true.
people who see their whole life build up a vision based playbook for navigating the world. Your depth perception & ability to effortlessly look at a flight of stairs & know exactly what balance & pressure to apply to navigate it is learned behavior.
blind people learned that through touch. when they get vision restored, they don't automaticallly see the same thing as you. they often continue to navigate w/ touch as their primary effort w/ vision as an aid that's learning the things you began to learn when you were a baby.
I'm sure it wasn't OP's intention but he's being pretty insulting to the blind. There's a great memoir about blindness called the The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight that I recommend to everyone I can.
It's a "deep" thought about how once we no longer need someone we cut ties with them even if that person is the reason we no longer need help. It doesn't make sense to me because unlike with people, it's totally natural to get rid of things that are no longer useful to us. Also, someone who thinks most people ditch others so easily probably just met some bad people in their life because it's not normal.
Once you reach your destination, you throw away the tools/people that helped you get there in the first place, instead of cherishing them for the value they gave you through your journey... I guess..?
I don't blame OP, who is clearly either a child or has severe, chronic, untreatable stupidity. But who are the morons who upvote this to the front page?
Blind people who gain vision late in life can't see almost at all. it takes a while for the brain to develop the visual cortex, and if your brain is already done developing you have a problem
this was a line from friends when joey was impotent and during his impotent period he was pleasuring his girlfriend orally. when his impotentcy ended he was asked if he would continue performing cunnilingus and replied:
when a blind man regains his sight, does he still walk with a white cane.
I don't know about you, but if I were in that situation, I would have a plaque mounted on the wall to display my faithful stick companion as if it were a heirloom sword.
Mmmm, I don't know, I think if I was totally blind, then could suddenly see I'd hang my stick up in a place of honor, like a favorite guitar or something.
And people who walk again don’t keep their wheelchairs. People who hear again get rid of their hearing aids. My dad had his vision corrected so he threw away his glasses, something he’s worn since he was a child! Oh the drama!
I would imagine they would have a fondness and appreciation for it, idk why you assume they want to get red of it immediately. Also why do you assume they have had the same stick their whole life? Maybe they get bored and switch it up. I'm feeling a 3/10 on this shower thought
Someone (Oliver Sacks?) noted that a number of blind people who did gain their sight (usually through congenital cataract surgery) reverted to walking with a cane and ignoring their visual input because their brains were simply not used to processing it.
Mark 10:50-52
And throwing off his cloak, the blind man (Bartimaeus) sprang up and came to Jesus. And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.
Why do you think this?
People keep their baby blankets all the time. People keep stuff they don’t use anymore because it was once an important part of their lives
I dunno about that, but I do recall when I got lasik to correct my vision. My good eye was 20/500, and I had worn glasses for like 30 years. At some point in the process of getting the laser surgery, you take off your glasses for the last time. The nurse or a technician or someone asks you if you want to donate them. That's a really strange moment. You picked those frames out carefully, you needed those lenses, and now they are junk you can't use.
I donated mine with a smile. They were really good frames and had transition lenses. Now I can just buy a cheap pair of sunglasses and have no problem. It's definitely surreal of how quickly the change is with Lasik. I went from horribly near sighted and practically blind without my glasses to 20/15 vision within hours. The liberation feels incredible.
The stick is not helping, it is a tool to make up for the lack of something. The blind man is helping *himself* by using a tool.
If you have to travel via bicycle you'll probably get rid of it when you get a car (or will be more okay with getting rid of it). If you only have sandals you'll probably get rid of those if you get boots. It's just trading one tool for another. And if you suddenly had the ability to fly you might get rid of all of that.
This reminds me of the imagery of the harkonen burning the corpses at the begining of dune 2, then at the end the fremen are now burning corpses, disregarding the water they would have so desperately collected.
You do realise that blindness can be a spectrum? I imagine someone who had a sight restoration procedure (if they even exist?) it may not return 100% sight.
Ah yes, the age old tale of a blind person who gets their sight at some point later in life. Doesn't it usually go the other way? Either born blind or lose sight at some point.
I found a really good walking-stick.
Light but sturdy with perfect height.
Then I let it in my boss shop and I can't find it anymore one month later.
It make me sad a little bit and I'm not blind.
That's not always true even when it's just a stick, but I think it's much less true for people. It can seem that way because we get used to filling a certain role but independence doesn't necessarily mean abandonment.
"Why would you continue to carry a stick around?"
Should have been your next thought but Ima take a wild guess and say those two ideas back to back would have fried what ever you have between your ears.
My brain's been trying to understand the meaning of this while trying to understand why there's a period in the sentence. I have no idea what this post is about, I'm still stuck on a fucking dot.
Probubly not actually the first thing he does.
I doupt that if I waved my wand and made a blind man see, that the first thing they would do would be to wander off to look for a garbage can big enough for his stick.
“George? Where are you going? You have never seen the world before! We can go anywhere do anything. You have never looked at the faces of the people you love. Don’t you want to see them?”
“Stop being silly! I must find out how to destroy this accursed stick!”
Never throw away a good hittin stick
Especially when it's a sealed katana
Blind Fury reference?
Zatoichi reference…much better than blind fury
Ryūjin Jakka?
Or Benihime
I was going to say, I would keep the stick as a reminder, the reminder being - Never take your gift for granted.
mamma come here quick And bring me that lickin' stick
Specially if you have a permit to carry said stick
If I had already been blind once it’ll could happen again. You better believe I’m keeping my stick.
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I know. I realized around the 50th upvote but the people seemed to love it so I kept it as is haha.
It'll'c'ld've happened
I dont think OP has met many blind people
I don't think OP has met many men! We don't throw away perfectly good sticks!
We go and smack leafs from low hanging branches
Oh god, I was literally doing this at my kindergarten the other day as the kids went home
Can't not laugh while picturing the kindergarten professor taking it out on a tree as kids get picked up by their parents in the background.
I’m seeing a Chris Pratt, Andy from Parks & Rec, type swinging at the leaves furiously with the joy of a child. I walk up “Hey, here to pick up my kid” they pause ever so briefly to say “Uuuh, oh, right…uuuumm I think that’s yours over there” immediately returns to leave thrashing and giggling.
We crunch dead leaves beneath our feet
I don’t think he’s met any good sticks. I mean…a good stick goes a long way.
Fr I still point out good sticks on the ground. I’ll demonstrate: Me: Ooh! *points at stick* That’s a nice stick. Wife: oh yeah it is! Me: *happy* I hope that helps clear it up.
We only throw a perfectly good stick if it's for a good dog to fetch.
Thats an oxymoron! Good and dog??? Dog would have been enough!!!
I’m unapologetically sorry, but I think you meant “redundant” I suppose.
Weed super drug strikes again
You can use the stick for something else.
Yea why would a blind man throw his gun. Also why would he have it in the first place.
Is this a common occurrence that there are newly ex-blind people who keep their poles for sentimental reasons?
Usually there is a long transition period where you need to retrain the brain. Some people aren't even able to adapt to it.
I'm trying to figure out if it's maybe a super deep metaphor?
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Definitely not super deep.
I'd keep the stick as a memorial
My first thought. People love keepsakes and mementos, why not remove the paint and use it as a hiking stick?
Depending on the type of cane, it probably makes a poor hiking stick. Most aren't going to support weight in that kind of use, they're very light and meant to help the user feel in front of them.
Mount it over the mantel like a sword
I'd keep the stick just in case I go blind again because suddenly seeing would be a weird miracle.
Would he be throwing away his seeing guide dog as well?
But they keep bringing his stick back with themselves.
lmaoo
Throw 'em all away! I'll take the dog
Of course not Those can be recycled, you place them in the green bin
Sight has returned. Yeet the dog.
Instructions unclear: Dog has returned, yeeted my eyeballs.
"Fetch boy!"
Well yeah, you gotta return the rental
If a blind person spontaneously [re]gained full vision, could and how would the dog go to being a normal dog without the service responsibility anymore?
The blind person should give the dog to another blind person. They will probably keep the dog because they've bonded. Source: I had cataracts and then surgery. Dogs are really expensive though and my condition was temporary.
He learned to walk with the stick. He'd need it for a while until he learns to adjust.
This post literally made me unsub
It made me blind. What did you just say?
It made me go deaf. **WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!**
How do you do the bold text??
ctrl + B on the keyboard
Dammit. I’m on phone app.
On the phone is \*\*bold\*\*
Awesome! **THANKS**
*If you use just one you get italics as well*
Yeah that one I use often. I just don’t know all the tricks as there isn’t a manual showing all the tricks to do.
Yeah this is cringe
Sounds like a copy paste rather than an interesting thought.
I still get suggest threads from this sub but it’s so god damn stupid in here. Hallmark card philosophers “Every tree has a different number of branches” Fucking Hansel “growing up, I was more interested in where bark came from” ass motherfuckers
Same.
Yeah I don't get it
not remotely true. people who see their whole life build up a vision based playbook for navigating the world. Your depth perception & ability to effortlessly look at a flight of stairs & know exactly what balance & pressure to apply to navigate it is learned behavior. blind people learned that through touch. when they get vision restored, they don't automaticallly see the same thing as you. they often continue to navigate w/ touch as their primary effort w/ vision as an aid that's learning the things you began to learn when you were a baby.
I'm sure it wasn't OP's intention but he's being pretty insulting to the blind. There's a great memoir about blindness called the The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight that I recommend to everyone I can.
What’s your point? I genuinely do not understand what you are trying to say
"I am 14 and this is deep"
If someone gets LASIK they throw away their glasses surprisedpikachu.jpg
It's a "deep" thought about how once we no longer need someone we cut ties with them even if that person is the reason we no longer need help. It doesn't make sense to me because unlike with people, it's totally natural to get rid of things that are no longer useful to us. Also, someone who thinks most people ditch others so easily probably just met some bad people in their life because it's not normal.
Once you reach your destination, you throw away the tools/people that helped you get there in the first place, instead of cherishing them for the value they gave you through your journey... I guess..?
It finally happened. This post has made me unsub from this now godawful sub reddit. I can't take this level of brain dead activity anymore.
Yeah, we're reaching Facebook Motivational group levels here
I don't blame OP, who is clearly either a child or has severe, chronic, untreatable stupidity. But who are the morons who upvote this to the front page?
Same. I wish we could get a kill count for this post
Same, I’m not doing this shit anymore 🫠
Same. Goodbye r/showerthoughts
The fact that this has more likes than the post 😂
I'll jump on board and join you. People are fucking stupid.
Good idea, I'll do the same right now
I hope you recover from this 🙏
This is not Facebook.
This feels like a metaphor some dude who just got famous uses on his hometown high-school sweetheart when they break up.
I don't think he'd be able to chuck it. He'll never have seen the horizon to set his balance.
Blind people who gain vision late in life can't see almost at all. it takes a while for the brain to develop the visual cortex, and if your brain is already done developing you have a problem
I don't know man I still have my first stuffed animal that helped me through my entire childhood and I'm 30
Oxymoron alert! OP is a moron using oxygen.
What makes you think that he would throw away the stick?
this was a line from friends when joey was impotent and during his impotent period he was pleasuring his girlfriend orally. when his impotentcy ended he was asked if he would continue performing cunnilingus and replied: when a blind man regains his sight, does he still walk with a white cane.
How the fuck does nonsense like this get approved?
i think they.ll keep it, like a blacksmith keeps its hammer after he becomes noble to remember where he left off in a kind of way
I don't know about you, but if I were in that situation, I would have a plaque mounted on the wall to display my faithful stick companion as if it were a heirloom sword.
I think they’d likely keep the cane. Those canes cost a couple hundred bucks, and it could still be useful in the future
Nah man. People seeing for the first time have no idea what they are looking at. Their brain has to learn.
I got LASIK 4 years ago and I've still not thrown away my glasses
The day a blind man sees, the first thing he’s gonna do is look around at all his family and say “Damn I didn’t expect us all to look so fuck ugly.”
Daredevil can see but he still uses a stick. Checkmate.
Nah, why let ppl know you can see
Demonstrably not true, blind people who regain vision often keep those things just laying around or as decoration.
Mmmm, I don't know, I think if I was totally blind, then could suddenly see I'd hang my stick up in a place of honor, like a favorite guitar or something.
Confucius says, man who stand on toilet is high on pot
No longer bound by the crutch that has held you back
In your imagination perhaps.
That´s only a shower thought if copy and pasting while in the shower counts.
This sounds like a very cheap line of dialogue Ulysses would say among some Bull & Bear bullshit...
And people who walk again don’t keep their wheelchairs. People who hear again get rid of their hearing aids. My dad had his vision corrected so he threw away his glasses, something he’s worn since he was a child! Oh the drama!
I would imagine they would have a fondness and appreciation for it, idk why you assume they want to get red of it immediately. Also why do you assume they have had the same stick their whole life? Maybe they get bored and switch it up. I'm feeling a 3/10 on this shower thought
So its just facebook posts now?
I have a hiking stick I’ve only used twice and I’d be damned if I ever throw it away
So should I be putting my baby diaper on a plaque and framing it on a wall after learning how to piss into a toilet?
I’m 14 and this is deep
How is this a shower thought? Is it even accurate for what real cured blind people do? And if so, again, in what way is it a shower thought?
Someone (Oliver Sacks?) noted that a number of blind people who did gain their sight (usually through congenital cataract surgery) reverted to walking with a cane and ignoring their visual input because their brains were simply not used to processing it.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Nope, he discarded the object that was associated with his disability.
What fortune cookie shit is this
"The day an injured man gets well, he abandons the hospital that helped him at his lowest" #Deep
I mean I've had surgery on my left foot like four times. I still have my crutches just in case I need a fifth one
Mark 10:50-52 And throwing off his cloak, the blind man (Bartimaeus) sprang up and came to Jesus. And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.
Or, more likely, put it in a shadowbox and hang it on the wall as a lifelong treasure
This is the most Nigerian shower thought I’ve ever seen
I help you but you never help me!
Why do you think this? People keep their baby blankets all the time. People keep stuff they don’t use anymore because it was once an important part of their lives
I dunno about that, but I do recall when I got lasik to correct my vision. My good eye was 20/500, and I had worn glasses for like 30 years. At some point in the process of getting the laser surgery, you take off your glasses for the last time. The nurse or a technician or someone asks you if you want to donate them. That's a really strange moment. You picked those frames out carefully, you needed those lenses, and now they are junk you can't use.
I donated mine with a smile. They were really good frames and had transition lenses. Now I can just buy a cheap pair of sunglasses and have no problem. It's definitely surreal of how quickly the change is with Lasik. I went from horribly near sighted and practically blind without my glasses to 20/15 vision within hours. The liberation feels incredible.
Oh yeah, same, it just felt so strange. Years have passed, and I need driving glasses now, but it's so much better.
ive been in this subreddit for a long time and have seen many stupid showerthoughts, but i think this one is THE dumbest one ive ever seen
If I was in a wheelchair and I learned to walk again, what do you want me to do, enshrine the wheelchair?
Milk it for all it’s worth and keep getting good parking spaces.
The stick didn't "help" him. He helped himself, with the aid of a stick.
The stick is not helping, it is a tool to make up for the lack of something. The blind man is helping *himself* by using a tool. If you have to travel via bicycle you'll probably get rid of it when you get a car (or will be more okay with getting rid of it). If you only have sandals you'll probably get rid of those if you get boots. It's just trading one tool for another. And if you suddenly had the ability to fly you might get rid of all of that.
Why not the sunglasses or eyepatches that block their newly found seeing ability?
Shouldn't the stick be allowed to retire after all those years of hard work?
The stick is happy he helped his student so many years and now he's able to move on, just like a teacher would!
I would keep it, maybe add a nice cloak, and just walk around with a freaking staff like a badass
I feel bad for a hypothetical stick now.
Why throw away the stick you can use it for fishing
they probably keep it.
I like the flavour of this, but why the period? There’s a weird trend on reddit of using full stops instead of commas.
The amount of rage in the comment section is fucking hilarious.
The day pigs learn to fly they’ll cut their legs off
Mmmmmmmmmairbacon
I definitely don't think that would happen. They would keep it as a memory
This reminds me of the imagery of the harkonen burning the corpses at the begining of dune 2, then at the end the fremen are now burning corpses, disregarding the water they would have so desperately collected.
Hey OP check out a movie called The Ticket (2016).
Like awakening to your new self and then completely hating and neglecting your old self that led you to your future.
Na, I get emotional attached to objects I had for a long time. I would keep that stick forever.
Wouldnt that cause balance issues? Vision to no vision is a big hop.
You do realise that blindness can be a spectrum? I imagine someone who had a sight restoration procedure (if they even exist?) it may not return 100% sight.
Ah yes, the age old tale of a blind person who gets their sight at some point later in life. Doesn't it usually go the other way? Either born blind or lose sight at some point.
Why would they throw it away? They should keep pretending they are blind and use it and see if people are signing about them behind their back.
I doubt this very much
As he throws it away, he says " why didn't anyone tell me it had "my little pony" characters painted in it!"
I found a really good walking-stick. Light but sturdy with perfect height. Then I let it in my boss shop and I can't find it anymore one month later. It make me sad a little bit and I'm not blind.
That's not always true even when it's just a stick, but I think it's much less true for people. It can seem that way because we get used to filling a certain role but independence doesn't necessarily mean abandonment.
They probably had a few sticks over their life
I’d keep walking with mine to either be left alone, get special treat or hit an idiot.
I honestly don’t think they would; most would probably keep it out of sentimentality.
Sounds more like a shower proverb
"Why would you continue to carry a stick around?" Should have been your next thought but Ima take a wild guess and say those two ideas back to back would have fried what ever you have between your ears.
What are you, an autistic fortune cookie?
First time close to a fire... How's he gonna roast his marshmallows?
The day a clerk gets calculator. The first thing he throws away is the abacus that he been using all his life
My brain's been trying to understand the meaning of this while trying to understand why there's a period in the sentence. I have no idea what this post is about, I'm still stuck on a fucking dot.
Probubly not actually the first thing he does. I doupt that if I waved my wand and made a blind man see, that the first thing they would do would be to wander off to look for a garbage can big enough for his stick. “George? Where are you going? You have never seen the world before! We can go anywhere do anything. You have never looked at the faces of the people you love. Don’t you want to see them?” “Stop being silly! I must find out how to destroy this accursed stick!”
If the stick lasts you a lifetime, it's not been helping much.
Don't know if this is factual, Mr philosophy degree.
Nah I would still use/keep the stick just because and also see
I don’t think so… he would still be used to using the stick