Of the five senses, which do you favor most?
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
December 3, 2020 8:33pm CST
It must be difficult to be blind, or deaf, or without smell. Worse if one has no feeling nor taste. How could you enjoy the food? Or feel a tickle? Or a gentle embrace?
But our Lord Jesus had been curing blind people. In today's Gospel, two blind men were made to see the light.
I'd like to surmise that not only were their sights restored, but their hearts filled with the Spirit.
Which of your senses do you use most? Why?
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
Sometimes, when viewing movies, I close my eyes and just listen. I discovered that without looking, I could hear all the words, expressions and sound effects.
Why your sense of sight?
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@LadyDuck Blindness is a handicap. I just don't know how serious compared to other conditions.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
Possibly hard but there was a Helen Keller who got through the difficulties of being blind. She was deaf, too.
@rsa101 (37933)
• Philippines
4 Dec 20
After I had a fight with my sickness the last couple of months I now deeply appreciate my sense of smell and taste since I lost it totally that all food has no taste nor smell and it is hard to chew it like that. After almost a week of it I certainly now understand why we smell and taste things good/bad is to appreciate the world we live in. Back then I love my sense of sight and hearing since that is the most active one that I use when you are working and doing some things. Although they are still very important to me in my daily life I have gotten a deep appreciation now of my sense of taste and smell when I lost it for some time.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
That is true. All senses are important. Most often, we do neglect how important our other senses are, like the smell which tells us how fragrant a rosal (gardenia) is or the oregano, the ginger leaves, and how foul smelling the sinigang actually is. Ha ha Yet, we love sinigang. Tells us how complicated our senses work, too.
Glad you realized the importance when the senses were briefly taken away from you. Now you can appreciate the blessings and begin telling everyone not to take the senses for granted.
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@rsa101 (37933)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@eileenleyva Yeah that l realize and right now enjoying it very much that i got it back. I am just watchful now about my weight.
. I think l should watch out trying to balance things out again. I might be neglecting something and get off balance again.
. I think l should watch out trying to balance things out again. I might be neglecting something and get off balance again.1 person likes this
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@rsa101 Balance is connected with the ears. We lose our balance if something is wrong with the auditory nerves. Plus, my dentist also told me to chew equally with both the right and the left molars, to achieve the correct balance. An EENT could help check out if you need anything - like vitamins, for instance.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
Including the sense of smell? Though I know chefs do need that sense very much.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@Shavkat Sinigang doesn't smell nice but is good to taste. Hi Hi.
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@Shavkat (137189)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@eileenleyva I think I need it since the food will be tasteless without using the smell.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
When the news came out the CoViD-19 symptoms include loss of senses of smell and taste, I did a daily mental check if I could smell the oregano and ginger and taste the bitterness of caffeine.
Sight might be most important but the current virus that did penetrate through the nostrils and the mouth showed how critical these senses are as far as the respiratory system is concerned. A virus infiltrate could even prove fatal. That is why the mask became a protective covering for our smell and taste.
I am very particular about my sense of sight, too. I am a 'Daredevil' fan but I would never ever want to lose my sight.
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@LadyDuck (457295)
• Switzerland
5 Dec 20
@eileenleyva I had an aunt who had lost his smell and taste because of a surgery, she enjoyed eating anyway, it was not too serious for her. I had an uncle who almost heard nothing, with ear aids he had an almost normal life. My mother almost totally lost the sensitivity in her finger, he was not too bad... but when became also blind, he lost the joy of living.
@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
4 Dec 20
They are equally important but I think I'm really afraid to lost both my eyesight. It would be very difficult when one has an impaired vision much I thought when you couldn't see everything. For abled people, having an incomplete or defective senses or being differently abled are difficult to live as we imagine but I would like to believe that people in such condition knows how to live the life they have because they love life.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
Do you know that Ludwig van Beethoven composed his 5th symphony when he was already deaf? That is why there were so many fortes in that piece. And it's the world's best loved.
When he first conducted that piece, the audience applauded thunderously. Someone approached Beethoven and motioned him to look at the crowd. It was the moment the crowd realized the master composer was deaf.
Great people get over their handicaps.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@ZedSmart That contention about terminology is a thought. True, persons with disabilities shouldn't be labeled disabled. That gives an entirely different meaning.
Thanks for telling, that had actually been puzzling me for the longest time, why these people are rendered disabled.
@ZedSmart (19753)
• Philippines
5 Dec 20
@eileenleyva That's why they should not be labeled as disabled because they can be great in their own ways that other people can't. 
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@RasmaSandra (73201)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Dec 20
Working online I guess I use two senses the most sight and sound when I listen to music as I work. Of course, also touch since I pound on my keyboard every day.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Dec 20
The three important senses we use all the time.
Which brings to mind that symptoms of CoViD-19 includes loss of smell and taste. People die quickly, too, when this happens.
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