A honey-bee bit me just above my right eye a day before yesterday. It is a painful event but let’s put pain aside as ir has no role to play in this article. The honey-bee bite caused a lot of swelling. The result was that the next morning my face was one and a half tomes its original size and my right eye was totally shut. My left eye has some problem with vision so let me nit go deep into that rather concentrate more on my right eye as it plays the lead role here.
I consulted a doctor and he right away started the treatment. So, by the evening next day I was able to open my eye slightly. I was able to see a slit of light. Now here is my first experience… it is like what I saw and what came to my mind with it…
My mom was standing in front of me when I was trying to open my eye. As I could open it slightly, I saw her eyes thru the thin opening slit and darkness surrounding it from every direction. A sight of hope… but this is what struck me….
A scene from a movie called Mission Kashmir came to my mind. It is a bollywood movie. In this movie a cop kills innocent parents of a kid during a antiterrorist operation. Now, he wore a black monkey cap during this operation and the boy saw his eyes thru that cap. So, that the boy saw only two eyes in black background and that murderous eyes haunted him for many years…
What I saw were the eyes of my mom…loving, eager to see my eye opening…
The second thought that came to me was of a view in the mirror of the car in front of you. When you see in the rear view glass of the car ahead of yours, you could only see the eye of the driver… with black background.
The next day morning I was able to open it slightly more. So that was like a view from the windscreen. It was better than before…still there was an upper limit and a lower limit! But a lot of water was running down from my eyes so the vision was a little hazy…
It took a couple of days more before I recovered fully. It was a nice experience I would say. I got complement that was looking like a guy being punched by someone and I wondered from where Mohammad Ali got his punch line…
Float like a Butterfly… sting like a Bee!
9th Jan, 2008.
