The People That Could See

Heres a story i found at 1:30 last night (well, this morning) in one of my notebooks from when i was little.

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Once a long, long time ago, everyone was blind. It was dangerous, yet in some ways safe. Each person made thier own things, however they could or wanted. No one could hunt wild animals or shoot things. Then all animals (even cows, horses, sheep, everything!) were safe because no one ate meat. No one cut thier hair. People got married by the sound of each others voice, girls' voices were soft. The softer the voice, the more boyfriends she would have. Boys voices should have been deep and brave sounding. The deepest man and the softest girl voice were made king and queen. For instance: At the beginning of time they put the Deepest and the Softest on thrones in a palace. As soon as one dies, they quickly found a new Deepest or Softest. Well, one day the Deepest and Softest had twins. A girl, and a boy. There was a celebration because twins (mostly a boy and a girl) were VERY special. Every pair had become the Deepest and the Softest. But there was something special about these twins. The boy was not deep voiced and the girl was not soft. They ran around without bumping into anything. They began talking about how things were red orange yelloe green blue and purple, the first colors in the world. Now of course the parents were mad! How could these children talk like this! They called a meeting. Why would children talk like this unless they could see something besides blackness? they asked each other. Finally, they decided to test them. "What does this bug look like?" they asked after catching a big beetle. "Why, he's black" said the boy! "With yellow spots and a red head!!" added the girl. They had planned two other tests. They said "Go catch an animal! Make light! Heat our teepees!!" "Fine" was the twins reply. Since they could see they had seen wildfires burning over the hills. They had three days to complete the test. Girl twin went to get some fire in a pot and Boy twin went to kill an animal.

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and it just kind of stops. I never finished. I bet Girl twin and Boy twin were successful though, and everyone respected them. I hope they didnt have any kids though, seeing as thier brother and sister you know.... yikes. I bet the people just suddenly started having bunches of not blind kids, or Boy and Girl Twin both married and blind person and the not-blind gene was dominate.... But my young little mind didnt catch a few problems with the story... how would the people want light? How could they know what seeing was? I think it makes an interesting little story though... dont know where the inspiration for it came from, in fact, i dont ever remember writing it, i was just going through my old notebook and i was like "whats this??". So, whatd you think?