i was working in a blind womans appartmet today and every time im in her place i seem to wonder what it would be like to be someone who is born into a world and taught rules and a way to live based on the way other people live. shes not born into a place where it is common to not have sight. everything she does is based, not on the fact that she doesnt have sight, but on the fact that to have sight is a state of being and a majority of people have that ability and she does not. people are so used to calling things normal just because that is what they have observed to be the majority, but that doesnt make it an absolute. as though having sight is normal, or being born with the ability to hear is normal, or any other state that people assume to be normal because they probably have those abilities and so did their neighbor.

in any case, i was thinking about something that einstien said about the moon. he once asked someone if they really thought the moon existed only when they looked at it. this was probably a rehtorical question which came from his contemplating the peculiar nature of electrons which act as waves until they are viewed, then they act as particles. theres an experiment called the double-slit experiment where scientists shoot electrons at a sheet to try and understand if it acts like a wave or a particle. where it should act like a particle, it acts like a wave. so they decided to actually put a measuring divice at the object being shot threw. they found out that by simply trying to measure or by observing they changed the outcome of the electrons. it went back to acting differently. this might not make any sense. i mean it sort of doesnt anyway. i explained it poorly but thats alright, no one reads this so im confusing no one. but in any case, einstien asked if he thought the moon existed only when he looked at it, cause by simply viewing or observing particles, there is an effect that changes other particles, even if only on the quantum level. and i thought, well what makes anyone think the moon exists even when you do look at it? if it were in laymans terms, which state would be the normal one? just a thought i spose