Extended reading read the adapted excerpt from Helen keller essay, three days to see. three days to see, except sometimes I have thought I would be an excEllent rule to live today as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life we should live each day with a gentleman, a vigor and the kid's of appreciation, which are often lost when time stretches out before us in an endless via the listlessness. I am afraid characters is the use of all our faculties and senses those who have never suffered the loss of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these faculties, their eyes, and is taking all sites and sounds easily, without concentration and with little appreciation. I have often thought I would be a good thing if each human being were stricken, blind and death for a few days at some time during his early adult life, darkness would make him more appreciative of sight. Silence would teach him the joys of sound. Recently, I was visited by a good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what he had observed, nothing in particular. He replied, how was IT possible? I asked myself to walk for an out through the woods and see nothing worthy of note. I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through my touch. I feel the delicate cimeter of relief, and I touched ed, the branches of trees, hopefully in search of a bad, the first sign of awakening nature after her winter sleep, something of the miracle of nature is revealed to me. And the changing seasons are a thrilling and unending the action of which streams through my fingertips. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from their touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by site? Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I had three days of sight, what would I most want to let my gays rest upon on the first day? I should want to see the people whose kindness, gentleman and companionship have made my life worth living. First, I should like to gaze long upon the face of my dear teacher who opened the outer world to me and accomplish the difficult task of my education with sympathetic tenderness and patients. I should look long into the faces of all my dear friends in printing upon my mind the outward evidence of the beauty that is within them. I should take a long walk in woods and rest my eyes on the beauties of nature when darkness had fAllen. I should experience the double delighted, being able to see by artificial light which man has created to extend the power of site. I should devote the second day to a hasty glimpse of the world, past and present, and probe into the soul of man. Throw his art. My first destination would be the american museum of natural history, where the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants is displayed. My next stop would be the metropolitan museum of art, whether spirit of egypt, greece and rome, as expressed in their art, is unfolded before me. I should spend the evening at a theatre or at the movies, how I should like to see with my own eyes the fascinating figure of hamlet, or the hearty full staff. The third and last day would be spent in the workday world of the present. So new york city, with so many activities and conditions of men, becomes my destination. I start from my home in a quiet little suburb and drive across the east river. I look ahead, and before me raise the fantastic towers of new york, I hurry to the top of the empire state building, anxious to see with my own eyes the city below me. Then I make a tour of the city always. My eyes are wide open to all the sites of both happiness and suffering, so that I may probe deep and out to my understanding of how people work and live in the evening. I should run a way to the theater, a to a genuinely funny play, so that I might appreciate the overturns of comedy in the human spirit. With this short outline of how I should spend three days of sight, I can give one hint to those who see, use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to other senses. Make the most of every sense glory in older pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact provided by nature.