Farsightedness

Your eye refracts light so that it converges behind the retina. What is near loses its contour. The page blurs, the face across from you grows soft, your own hands lose their sharpness as you work. But the horizon stays clear. The distance is no problem. It is the near that gives you difficulty.

With this your body has formulated something very precise. It is showing you, in the language of sight, what is also happening in your inner experience: you have a sharp eye for what is far away — for plans, for the future, for the big picture. But what lies directly in front of you, the immediate, the near, the now — that blurs. Not because you could not see it. But because something in you keeps shifting the focus — again and again, away from the near, toward the distant.