History of CWLTP - Entry 1: · 1:43pm May 26th, 2017
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The Spring Sunrise
By: Matthew Palumbo / Yosh E. O’Ducky
March 2013 was one of the scariest, miraculous, and inspirational times of my life.
After requiring six surgeries on my eye from August through November of 2012 I finally had recovered enough to return to work. It was a miracle I could see anything at all let alone even fathom returning to my post as a Business Analyst.
Obviously things weren’t like they were before the 2012 incident. Fortunately this was far from the first ocular calamity I had gone through in the past decade. So I knew, with the right tools and determination, I could still succeed in performing my job responsibilities.
As I adjusted back to my job I discovered a group of MLP fans through Meetup. I befriended one of the members who informed me of an upcoming fan animation entitled “Snowdrop”. So I eagerly kept checking Equestria daily for notification of its release.
Snowdrop turned out to be far more than a fan animation. It’s focus on a totally blind character finding her place in the world touched me to the core. I watched it over-and-over. Each time admiring how no blind clichés were ever mentioned. It was truly amazing.
Most impressive of all was the scene where snowdrop is with her mom during a flashback. In it the mother is describing the stars to Snowdrop. The mother, Primrose, mentions how you can wish on stars. Snowdrop asks if she can wish for eyes to see the stars. However her mother sweetly tells her that she should save her wishes for something is really important. Snowdrop inquires about the importance of having sight and is told that”…Don’t worry. You won’t need your eyes to find your place in the world…”.
I played this scene multiple times over. The concept of not needing your eyes to find your place in the world really made me start to accept that, no matter how many ‘miracles’ I have had I would lose all my eyesight. Fortunately, to this day, I realized that I’d be okay. Like Snowdrop I could still be me despite becoming totally blind while owning my label rather than be allowed to be solely defined by it.
