I want to be blind

I was thinking recently that I want to spend a period of time (Month? Year?) blind, deaf, mute, or some combination between them. Not for some reason like feeling value in being impaired and not in being average. But instead because I would like to have the experience. I want to understand it. To feel it. I feel that I would grow from the experience. To me, this would be an amazing opportunity. Not in any safely escapable form, but as a definite form that cannot be resolved without expert assistance.

Some may question my reasoning. To those who do, I present to you a poem:

'I look upon all that I experience,

and I see it my own unique way.

A view forged by all that has happened,

used to view that which is happening.'

What I mean by this, is that everything I have ever done holds new meaning under any of an infinite number of other possible views. To venture beyond my own experience, and understand and accept a different experience, allows me to gain a new perspective. But that is not all that I gain. I gain the new perspective, as well as a judgment of it through my view. As well that I gain a judgement of my own perspective through using another. Again I gain but in the form of unison of the two views, interpreting experience present and past with both of the perspectives hand in hand. And as with any perspective gained, I gain knowledge of its counterperspective. A perspective formed of the exact opposite viewpoints; stark contrast to the viewing perspective.

So, what I wish to say is that, I wish to be blind, so that I may have a greater understanding of vision. I wish to be deaf, so that I may have a greater understanding of hearing. I wish to be mute, so that I may have a greater understanding of sounding. And with each new perspective and growth, I gain far more than just that perspective or growth alone.