Journal #18

As I pondered the multitude of eyes beaming at me from the magnificent creature I began to wonder.  How does an eye work?  What complex functions take place in order for such a magnificent system to complete its specific jobs?  It had never occurred to me to begin to think about how intricately and diversely an eye has to function.  This lead me to begin to wonder how extremely complicated ophthalmology must be.  I vaguely remember back in fourth grade learning about how an eyeball functioned and later getting the opportunity to dissect a real cows eye, too.  Of course I was only in fourth grade so we only ever scratched the surface of the extremely complex infrastructure that is an eyeball.  There is also the fact that all that occurred over six years ago, as well.  I have forgotten pretty much everything that I learned about eyeballs from enrichment class back in fourth grade by now.  Now that such a beautiful set of white orbs were staring at me I could not help wonder what was it that I learned about the iris, or the cornea?  What exactly did the pupil do?  I was overwhelmed with the astonishingly powerful drive to learn everything I could about such a complex structure.  I wanted to know how such a small little thing could do so much in such little time?  How could these balls of some type of tissue provide so much and none of us really even know how?  Imagine going just a day with out your eyes and having to rely completely on your four other senses?  That is just not something I would want to do.  I was beginning to feel guilty for my lack of appreciation for my eyes. From now on I was going to attempt to understand my eyes so that I could better show my respect for them and all they have done for me in my upcoming future.  All because I had began to pondered the multitude of eyes beaming at me from the magnificent creature.