Sensation and Reality How would my life be if I could not see the beautiful stars at night, or if I was unable to smell and taste my favorite Italian dish, penne ala vodka, or could not listen to a Beastie Boys album, or even feel the warm sand under my feet when I’m at the beach. I know that my life would be extremely different for me if just one my senses did not all function. The one sense that I feel like would be almost impossible to live without would be my vision. In order to perform daily life activities a major requirement is that people should be able to see. I am a very independent person and I feel like that if I lost my sight my life would go through significant changes. The first major change that would occur in my life would be that I could not drive my self any where; I would be dependent on people bringing me places such as school, shopping, and any where else that requires a car to take me.
Sports are a big part of my life either if I am watching them on television or actually playing them competi vely. I enjoy playing soccer, basketball, skiing, and mountain biking, it is hard to imagine being able to do these things at the level that I am used to if I were blind. Losing my sight would probably bring to my attention that I probably took it for granted. I think that if I lost my I sense sight my other senses would probably enhance themselves in order to over compensate for not being able to see.
The Essay on War Poets and the five senses
... through the poet’s manipulation of the 5 primal senses; sight, sound, taste, smell and touch. This essay shall ... Sound is often referred to as the secondary sense, after sight, though it has just as much power and ... experienced physical pain at some stage in their life thus the usage of pain in poetry is ... to a reader without allowing the reader to feel the poetic message in a more primal way. ...
I would probably be able to hear, feel, and smell better. I feel that my body would react to me not being able to see by strengthening my other senses. Even with my improved senses I feel I would not be able to function without the help of people. I think that if I lost the ability to feel heat, cold or pressure life would be a bit strange at first but after a while I would probably be able to adapt. I would think people would have to let me know if something was to hot or to cold to be touched a not to hurt my self. For example if I was around the kitchen my mom my say not to lean on the stove because it is on, if I accidentally do so I might get burned and even though I would not feel the pain it would leave a scar.
People would have to tell me how to dress in relation to the weather so I would not get sick. When I was growing up in Portugal if something caused me pain it was usually my fault. My parents most of the time yelled at me for doing what ever I did to my self and told that next time I would think twice before acting. There obvious approach to not babying me every time I got physically hurt helped me later on in life by making me a tougher person..
