Monday, 24 August 2015

Blind Man Completes a Marathon

A blind man in UK just completed a marathon in UK, where he completed 160 miles in what is considered to be the world's toughest race!. Wow. You all must be thinking right now, how was he able to run 160 miles without having a pair of functioning eyes.

Now back to the serious world. Completing a marathon without the use of one of his senses is an unbelievable accomplishment and is something that can raise many questions in psychology thus the human sciences. We can view from this accomplishment that without having the ablity to see, he was still able to do it. Which means that this man was able to use the strength and power of his mind along with the strength of his other 4 senses in order to be able to trump the deficiency of being blind. This can lead to the development of my knowledge question, to what extent can 4 senses be able to trump the loss of one of the senses?.

When people become blind, they are forced to rely on their other 4 senses. Their feel, smell, hearing and taste become used even more often as they must use them to get through basic everyday tasks and complex tasks as well. Walking to the kitchen or walking through a crowded street where you have such little space will require all the more use of those senses if one is blind. This can lead us to think that we can we really survive as well without one sense as we could've if we had all 5 senses functioning. Our senses work separately but they all in all help us complete our actions and we can do things without one sense. After all there are millions of people in this world who are blind and/or deaf, but they are still living life to the fullest and showing us that the power of the mind on top of the strength of the other 4 senses will be able to help us to keep moving forward.

For people who are blind, they can train their ear constantly to hear noises that they may never have been able to have heard before because they didn't put much emphasis on it since they had perfect sight. The same will apply to the touch, taste and smell, these 3 senses will also be put to heavy training as the ability of those 3 senses will move to new heights.

Overall it is possible of course to use mind power and the other senses to overcome the loss of one sense and there is still definitely a huge chance that your state of mind and ability will be like how it was before you had all senses working as you can see a blind person was able to complete a marathon, something people who even have perfect senses cannot even do.

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