Visionary

Short story about a blind girl

The world became dull and empty. The once greener-toned earth has only dead plants and trees. There were no more creatures, no animals or insects. Only people remain on earth, but even they seem gone. 

The world lost its spark, but not Mara.

Mara is a blind girl, but she sees something no one else can see anymore.

The beauty of life.

In a world that has forgotten colors, rhyme, patterns, and connection, Mara sees it, not literally, but in a way only she can. Her mind. She's a visionary. 

Mara’s internal world became her comfort. She cannot see, but she can imagine. So she imagines. In her perception, the world is filled with bright colors, music wafting through the rhyme, and walls of art with puzzle-like patterns, and the connections she builds along the way become her source of happiness. 

Externally, it was the opposite. Nothing in the external world screamed bright colors, musical rhymes, or even connections. Externally, people cared only about what they could gain, not about building a connection. 

But what's unique about Mara is her optimism. Mara knows the truth, but she also knows that the internal world could become the new external. 

And so she keeps that vision close to her heart.