Blindness

What you could not see about yourself that everyone else apparently could.

The pattern in a relationship that you only recognized once it was over.

A warning that was given clearly and that you managed not to hear.

What you were protecting yourself from seeing, and at what cost.

The decade you spent in a situation that you would later understand was unsustainable.

How you explained away the signs that were there from the beginning.

What privilege or position had made invisible to you, until it was not.

The person in front of you whose suffering you were too occupied to notice.

The way fear of a truth can make someone genuinely unable to perceive it.

What you were committed to believing about someone that turned out to be wrong.

A habit or pattern that was apparent to your friends and invisible to you.

What you had to lose before you could understand what you had had.

The exit you did not see because you were not yet ready to take it.

What a certain kind of certainty had made you incapable of questioning.

The moment you realized you had been rewriting what was happening as it happened.

What an ideology or loyalty had made you willing to overlook.

A gift or quality in yourself that others recognized before you did.

How long you went not knowing something that was knowable.

The conversation where someone told you directly and you changed the subject.

What finally made the invisible visible, and what it cost to finally see it.