it's official

well, it's official. i am partly color-blind. some of you have long suspected as much. so now everyone of you who i have argued about a color with can take this as vindication you were right. well, only if it was red we were arguing over.

you see, i had to have a health check today in order to be approved for my visa. the very last stage was an eye check. so this lady pushes a book in front of me and tells me to read it. i look up at her and say what? there's nothing on there but colored shapes, and they don't have any pattern. she kindly tells me that it says 15. she flips the page and we go throught the same exchange. but this time i look up at her almost not believing that she's telling the truth. so i pick up the book and look throught it, i can't see a thing. then this indian guy i met a few days earlier walks in for his eye test. she opens the book to a new page and asks him to read it. he quickly says, 88. a new page, and again, without hesitation, 75.

you know, i had long thought, and even said i was partly color-blind, but i was never really sure. now i am. i could barely see anything on those pages and everyone else in the room quickly read the nymbers. even after they pointed out what to look for and told me the correct number, i saw different numbers. so, like i said, i was wrong. but only if the color we argued over was a shade of red.