Insights and Outsights

As you age, you start learning about cataracts.

Techniques have ranged from ten days in a clinic, real stitches, Mafia style sunglasses, waiting for stitches to come off (in the 70's),  to quick trips  in and out of clinics within a couple of hours, and back to work,  in the late 90's, when the technique of Phacoemulsification was popular.  It is popular even today.

This surgery was one of the latter types.   

The purpose was the same. To remove the curtain of opacity that tended to grow across the eye lens so that one could look at the world, with new eyes, and like Louis Armstrong , sing  "Oh what a wonderful world !" , the song  with an optimistic and hopeful theme, that calmed a racially and politically charged US , in 1967.

Born to see a life of peace, altruism, goodness and faith, for Lady Cornea these have been tough times. She's realistic, excellent at handling Pressure, and with a great sense of Aqueous Humor, she passes it all on to her Pupil, who, in the highest tradition of over-smart kids, tweaks it through the Lens to show his Retinal Parents; good , conservative, old fashioned folks, residents of the heritage structure, Optica Splendour.

But in today's troubled times, seeing is not believing any more. The usually helical light hearted Protein folks clump together, unable to make sense of a world, where Life begets no respect, Free radicals threaten society and Plaques proliferate amidst people, blocking progress. All they can do, is wear a Cataractian Veil to fool the Angry  Amygdala.

Not done. Nishkaam Karma means dedicated work, no hiding, and bravely facing and performing regardless of the fruits. And so, quietly, stealthily, the veil is caught and removed, fear destroyed, and the mind cleaned. Thanks to the Lady and the "drops" of constant encouragement, it is once again a new way to see the world....