“Consider your five senses: hearing, sight, touch, taste, & smell.
which one would you surrender first? which one would be last?
and just a couple lines of why.”
Well, seeing as I have a disease that is known for causing deafness I’ve had a long time to come to grips with the idea that I will end up deaf. But if I had to choose which one I would give up it would be smell. I’m not particularly focused on olfactory stuff. I have a hard time breathing out of my nose so I think I miss many/most smells anyway.
Last would be sight for me. I would have a very hard time adjusting to the kind of limits blind people have. I know many who still have awesome lives, but they have no choice but to accept help that would be super hard for me.
First: hearing Partly for similar reasons with the already being about halfway there. (it’s actually kind of nice to have the world fade when the hearing aids come out) Partly because I’ve just never been as oriented there. The sucky part would be the way it affected dancing.
Last: Touch. I could handle finding my way in the dark. But seeing without touching would be torture. I can’t imagine gardening, cooking, knitting, etc. without it. Plus the health/safety issues if you can’t feel pain.
I have to agree re: sense of smell…
Plus, work has introduced me to whole ranges of scents I could happily live without.
Oddly enough, I think sight would be the first I’d let go. Strange, sure, especially in our visually-oriented culture, but the idea of never playing music or feeling a close hug again terrifies me. With my allergies, I’ve learned to value taste and smell far too highly to be able to let them go. Something about walking into a house and smelling whose house it is isn’t something I could live without.
the first i’d give up is my hearing: ironically, i own a set of “exquisitely sensitive ears” (so said an audiologist) and some days spend most of my time with earplugs to kill the all fracking noise.
last to go would be touch. not sure why except the thought of no sensation really really squicks me out.