The Importance Of Living Without Senses

In the world today, a vast majority of American 's are faced with the task of living without one or more of the senses that some may deem "essential". But, should we really refer to it as a task? Are these Americans really living any less than we are without a sense? It 's not like they know what it is like to live without that sense; they don 't know any different. While some may say that it is a task, and their lives must be terrible to not know and understand what it is like to see, or hear, the people that actually don 't have the sense may think very different. Helen Keller once said, "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight with no vision." She makes a very good point here by saying that even if you have sight, you don 't always see the beauty in everything because you take sight …show more content…
Even thinking about which sense I would give up was very hard to say. When you lose one sense, you are bound to lose another. If you go without sight, you 're life would just be awful because you would never be able to understand what was going on around you, but your hearing would be heightened. If you went without hearing, you can always fix that by getting hearing aids or other things that scientists and doctors have come up with to help the deaf. If you go without taste, you are going without smell, and vice versa. If you go without touch, you 'll never understand what it is like to have feelings. You won 't know what it is like to be hurt, or burned. Living without one of the five senses would be a very hard task to be handed in life, but if you made the best of it, I think you would be able to handle it. There is always an upside to every down, and you always just have to live on the top of it. Stay positive, and know you were given this task because you are strong enough to handle it. If I had to choose a sense to live without, I would choose