In the dictionary, blindness is most simply defined as not able or willing to notice, understand, or judge. Basically it means being sightless. If blindness has such a simple definition, then at times, why is it so hard to see? There have been many events in my life which I have known little about. With age, I have been able to see and understand more of the past and of the present. Even with my current level of maturity, only recently have I been able to see some of the things that had once passed before me. The most hidden of these occurrences were my experiences in middle school. Because of these experiences I had put myself into an image which was not my own. I didn't know I had changed. I couldn't tell. I never was very significant. In all reality, I was a different person.

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