pledging your eyes is a gift of love and other stories.

sadly, eye bank believes that there is a serious shortage of donated tissue worldwide, particularly corneas. i, without thinking much, pledge my cornea to the eye bank. gist of the story is the heroic me giving the eye bank the authority to make use of my cornea for the purpose of corneal transplant so that others who are blind may see. but that is pala upon my death.

first, i dont see any heroic act. brave lang may be. i dont like eye bank's tagline na "be a hero in someone's eyes... support your eye bank." its more of a generous act and nothing more. choosing to be generous is not being a hero for you choose that act simply because you believe that that act is right period. we should, anyway, do good and act right.

it is like praising the two caloocan (or navotas ba yon?) police officers for doing their duty. it is their responsibility in the first place to capture the bad men, so why make a big story out of it? though its really very rare to witness such action, still it isnt worth all the hype plus mike enriquez' contacting the city mayor as early as 630am and oblige the poor mayor on the spot to pledge "na tulungan ang dalawang ito kasi itong isa e may dalawang anak na ganito ang edad at yung isa naman e..."

anyway, i still carry the card with me. i just dont know if my eyes will still be useful. 3.50 and 2.5 ang grado ng mata ko kasi and di ko na maremember kung anong mata ang 2.5 at alin ang 3.5.