At the eye doctor, if you see blurry, you aren’t given a colored lens. You’re given a lens that makes things *clear.*
Everyone comes in with a different level of blurriness or color-blinded or astigmatism. Therefore, the prescribed lens is different for everyone…But it is always *corrective* in nature.
That is, your unique prescription *conforms* you closer to accurate vision. Not to see diversely, but to see clearly.
It is only this lens that brings about the most *diversity* in the shapes and colors that actually exist.
We all have lenses, whether they’re the ones we’re born with, or the ones we’ve put on. The question the eye doctor asks (hopefully!) is not, “Who’s to say that’s really an E at the top of the chart? After all, we all have different perspectives.”
That’s not helpful at all! It’s great this doctor accepts you for who you are with your great jokes and your horrible vision alike… but even greater he would be to offer you better sight!
Rather, the most helpful question your eye doctor could ask is, “What adjustment do you, uniquely, need to receive, in order to see reality *more accurately?*”
You’ll see spiders and snakes more accurately, and you’ll see flowers and leaves more accurately.
Nobody has perfect vision. But this doesn’t make blurry vision “beautiful” or “diverse.” Rather, this fact reveals that each of us has the same need for eyecare, regardless of what type of blind spot we may have.
Of course, we cannot give ourselves accurate lenses. We must avail ourselves to the test, which reveals our faults. Only by availing ourselves to the eye doctor and his test can we have clear vision. And even then, we must return frequently to continue to see rightly. Many people forget that.
You see?
Isaiah 42:18
