Running around the comm center blindfolded

This was my fourth year being lead around the community center blindfolded. It gets better each time I do it.

Once people are able to realize how safe they are in the hands of their classmates, they can then move on to enjoy being without sight. Being blindfolded is the safest place you can be, both physically and mentally. When you can't see what's around you, you don't have to worry about other people looking at you and you don't have to worry about how you look (because a piece of cloth is covering half your face). It becomes a place where you can just run and let your mind wonder and not have to worry about keeping yourself safe because you know that your classmates are looking out for you. It's probably one of the only times that I have experienced a group of thirty teenagers forget their differences, forget about the dislikes they may have towards any specific person in the group, and be really kind and gentle with one another. In normal life, we tease eachother and we get into arguments and disagreements, but when we blindfold one another, all that gets tossed aside in order to take care of one another. It's a very intimate place to be. Some people get scared by intimacy which leads to unimportant chatting during this process. It's unfortunate that it's really hard for some people to get over this fear, becuase the experience is so much deeper when nobody talks. You begin to rely on your other senses to understand one another. When communcation can be understood without language, and without the ability to see, the whole world seems to quiet and become calm.