Having a mom who sees the world differently than most people changes how I live. “I prefer living in color,” the painter David Hockney said. My mom never said anything like that. She can’t see any color. Her world is black, white and gray. She has never been able to see color. Sometimes my mom wishes she could see color but she has never felt like there is no happiness without color. My mom also makes me see the world differently. It’s not just her.
One time me, my family and some friends were in Tahoe on a snowy morning. We were planning to go skiing. I woke up, rubbed my eyes and then realized I should be upstairs. I walked up the stairs to the kitchen. Some people including my mom were making coffee and other boring stuff (except for cereal). I asked my mom if she was coming. She said no. She said this because skiing is hard when you are light-sensitive. This is one example of how my mom gives me the perspective of people who might not have their mom with them while doing something that is more fun with full vision.
In kindergarten, my family volunteered to take the guinea pigs over Christmas break. When we got them they gave us instructions to take care of them. One day we wanted to take them out of their cage. We read the instructions on what to do when we take them out. The instructions said when we take them out we need adult supervision at all times and I said to my mom “We need to wait for Tony to get home because you don’t have adult supervision.” I said this because in kindergarten I thought that supervision was seeing things normally. This shows that my mom changes how I see and live.
One time at a taekwondo performance I did the test and then got my stripe (rank up) from my master. After I got my stripe my mom was looking at her cell phone and someone who was the same rank as me came up to me. They said, “Why is your mom holding her phone so close to her face?” I felt like it was kind of an insult directed at my mom but that’s probably not what the person meant. My reply to the question was, “She has a vision problem which includes nearsightedness so she holds her phone close to her face.” A very small amount of people have the eye problem that my mom has (1 in 30,000 people get it). This shows that my mom is special in lots of different ways and gets me a lot of questions to answer. She also turns the brightness on her phone all the way down.
Look, I can see why someone would think there is no beauty without color. If I lost all sense of color right now I would be devastated. But what I’m saying is my mom can’t say there is no beauty without color because she doesn’t know what she is missing out on. Also, I’m not saying anything bad about my mom. Most of the time I feel lucky to have a mom like her.