Bearcat Section: Can You See Your Future?

What if you were asked to draw a picture of your favorite place to go or thing to do? Easy enough, right? You’ll probably draw yourself at the local hot-spot on a night out with your friends, cooking (or burning) your favorite meal, or who knows-maybe your favorite place to be is school (yeah, right). But this is besides the point. The ability to envision one’s self in a particular scenario is a luxury that so many of us take for granted. Some individuals, as we have come to discover, are able to envision things, but they are unable to actually see them. Our New York Cares volunteer experience, a graduation requirement for all Baruch freshman, taught us the true value of sight.
In order to believe in something, many of us have to see it. However, we learned that those who were visually impaired or lacked the ability of sight altogether believed in things that they did not see. The adults that we worked with described vivid images of nature, places, and things, created beautiful pieces of jewelry, and compiled creative groups of fabrics just by believing. We, as college students, can relate this measure of faith to our success at Baruch: although the end of the road seems unclear, we must envision ourselves achieving greatness by simply creating an image in our heads. Seeing, therefore, is not the only way to believe.