It's so easy to take things for granted, I happen to take a lot of things for granted.

In my youth my parents would wake up all 3 of us boys for school and get breakfast ready all the while we were trying to get back to sleep.

It's easy to take things for granted - especially when it's something that is always there. Having a spouse or kids that are always around is a luxury, you may be happy to have them around you at all times, but you really know how much you took that for granted when you have to leave. Maybe it's a business trip for a week, but for some it lasts months - and then you know how much you really took them for granted.

Think of something you have around you all the time or something that you have, that you have never done without.

I wake up and look around to see what life is like today, is it drizzley out? Is the sun shining? Is it snowing? All these things I can tell just by looking out my window, but what if I couldn't see? What if my life became black? No light or shadows to even tell me what time of day it was.

Can any of us even imagine what it would truly be like to have no eye sight? To be in complete darkness all the time, to not know what the trees look like, never to see the stars ever again, can any of us really appreciate what that would be like?

Imagine how your life would change, your memory would have to improve because you would have to remember where everything is, where you last put something. Even going to the washroom has been complicated by your loss of sight, some of the most mundane and trivial things, like looking behind you as you back out of your driveway are now something of the past.

The faces of loved ones, pictures of your family and friends, your favourite television show - never to be seen again. Can any of us really imagine how cut off from the world we would feel, because imagining is the only thing we could do unless it really happened.

Imagine waking up tomorrow, what time is it? How would you know unless you were told, because you surely wouldn't have a special clock that told you. You would want to speak to someone because you felt you were alone, where is your cell phone? You have to use the washroom, so for a man does this mean you have to sit peeing? Then you wash your hands, you feel the water and hear it coming out of the tap - but you can't see it.

You are hungry so you go to the kitchen, find the kettle and fill it with water, turn on the stove making sure you place the kettle on the right burner. The phone rings and you search for it banging into things on the way, you hear it but you're not sure which room it's in, by the time you find the room the phone stops ringing. You try to feel around the room for the phone, if you could only have one glance you could narrow it down, then the kettle starts whistling and its back out to the kitchen. You manage to get a cup from the cupboard, fetch a teabag from another cupboard and place it into the cup. You start to pour the boilng water into the cup only to over flow it, and water goes all over the counter and a little onto the floor. You reach into the cupboard for the sugar dish and pull it out to the edge to grab it but it comes out too far and it comes crashing to the floor spilling sugar, mixed with glass all over the place and it's especially messy where it mixes with the water.

What do you do next? Do you breakdown and cry? Do you walk to get a mop or broom? Will you walk over the glass? Will you end up tracking more mess throughout the house?

By now you may be getting a better understanding of what it would be like to lose your eye sight.

Of all our senses eyesight is the most important for survival, can any of us really imagine what our lives would be like without it?