Visionary

A story about a girl who's blind but is enthralled by art and lives to draw.

 

            Life is colorful, I just don’t see it the way everyone else does. In fact, I don’t see it at all. But a girl can imagine what the world outside her eyes looks like, right? I’m an artist, a blind one, but that doesn’t stop me. I have a vision, hidden behind this veil – I have a vision.

 

            “You can’t even see what you’re doing!” My mom screamed as I drew on, the pencil in my hand taking on a life of its own.

 

            “No, but I can sense what I want it to be,” I mumbled, too concentrated on my pencil’s movement, of the unknown image I was making.

 

            “And what’s that? You don’t even know what anything looks like,” she retorted and I sighed. Can no one understand how I work?

 

            “I know what they feel like, the energy everything gives off- the meaning. I absorb all of that and transfer it to paper,” I said, the urge to draw fading as my pencil came to a stop.

 

            There was a pause.

 

            “What’s that?” My mom whispered, her voice closer than usual. Did she mean my creation?

 

            “It’s called ‘Blind Ambitions’,” I responded, the feelings that captivated me rushing onto the paper with its name, giving it the last of its life. Now it was complete.

 

            “It’s beautiful,” my mother sobbed, hugging me, and yet another feeling, an energy spread throughout me. I was only just beginning.

Reviews

[OutToLunch]

awwwe! cute!

[Red Raven]

Very touching and encouraging.
It gives a new hope and life.
Your story have a lot of potential.
Short but enough intensity to make other's feel alive again.

Thanks for sharing :O)