A man woke up one day from his afternoon slumber on the beach with the sun blinding in his eyes. And after the glare wore off, he noticed something was different. For the first time in his life he could see everything, everywhere, in minute and perfect detail. Every child, every parent, every intention and every betrayal lay open before him in crisp and unequivocal detail. Every success was chronicled in ripples of clarity. Every failure lay open. His heart swelled with the beauty and progress of humanity, and yet as he turned he saw the suffering of every starving child, every war fought for ideology, the violence, the despair, and the indifference of his fellow man.
Paralyzed by the enormity of it all, he squeezed his fists into his eyes and prayed for deliverance, for something to wipe away the images of the world that had burned their way into his retinas, until he ran screaming and clawing at the only set of eyes in the world that could see it in her entirety.
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