To what are you blind?

I read in my meditation book recently, (The Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo)  that each of us is blind in various ways. 

"A blind child, guided  by his mother,  admires the cherry blossoms.... -  Kikakou

Fear  causes us to be blind. and  since to fear is very human, to be blind is  unavoidable.  If you fear tight
spaces, you are blind to the wonder of  sudden solitude; if you fear heights, you  are blind to the humility vast
perspective brings; if you fear spiders you are  blind to the splendor and  danger of webs. 

Isn't this our challenge?  We all struggle and  fall  in and out of relationships and in and out of the oneness of life.  In the 
movie "Shall we dance", Susan Saradon says that we get married in order to have  a witness to our life.   I say, we need each other to shed light on our  blindness and the wholeness of life.   We take turns being the blind child, the guiding light or even the blossom itself loving the other through the darkness,  the trust, the experience until we know we are connected to each and every  particle of life.  We are not alone yet the fear of that itself causes blindness.

When I was young and exerting my  independence my mom used to  tell me over and over, "No man is an island."  She
was right, we are not  the island but the seeds that grow and create the synergy  of its existence. 

Shed light on the seed, let it fertilize and  grow.  To what are you blind?