Seeing a New World, Bedazzled!

If I were to visit another world in hopes of bringing something helpful back to Earth as we know it, I would chose to go to a place where empathy is of main importance. Maybe they would have a tool that could help people relate to one another, to help in seeing where others are coming from, or see through another’s eyes-- Something like a pair of glasses-- or better yet, sunglasses!

These glasses would be a must have by all, a gadget that everybody would want, or better yet, NEED to have. Firstly, they’d have to be pretty stylin,’ maybe bedazzled or something, or maybe they could all be custom made to personally fit each individual to how they like, so people would actually want to wear them. However, most important is the function of these glasses. These glasses, if you wore them, would allow you to literally see through somebody else’s eyes, for a brief amount of time. Whomever you lock eyes with, as long as you both have your glasses on, would both see snapshots flash before you! Each snapshot would be a key moment that has had an effect on the other’s recent life. Each snapshot would also be overlaid with a different color hue to represent the emotion being felt, which you would feel as if it were your own. You would continue to see shot after shot until one of the two people chooses to look away and break the connection!

The point of both people wearing the sunglasses allows the whole process to be completely of free will. Both people deciding to wear the sunglasses in the first place would be the first commitment. The second would be the action of locking eyes with one another. Either can look away at any time and stop the whole thing from continuing on at any point. Once this commitment is made, it would naturally generate trust, as they would be communicating a much deeper part of their selves. However once people became familiar with the process and see that it’s not so scary to show how your true emotions, they wouldn’t be as shy to wear them again. Hopefully people would be encouraged to continually wear them! Not only would these glasses hopefully help save things like arguments or fights, but it would also generate a deeper level of communication that allows people to get closer to one another and possibly engage in healthier ways of living as a whole.

What if people eventually were comfortable wearing glasses like these all the time? I feel like it’s common practice nowadays to ask, “does anyone really care?” As in, does any ONE person really care? We’re more than lucky to even have a handful of people to confide in.

But what if everybody cared?

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