The Bible is meant to live for us, but it is hard for us to imagine what it must have been like to have been blind and then very suddenly to be able to see. If Bartimaeus were here, he could tell us. Or maybe we can put ourselves into Bartimaeus' shoes by using our imagination. Just use your imagination and think of what it must have been like to have been Bartimaeus.
Blind eyes spend all their time in the darkness.
I have been blind all my life. I spend all my days stumbling around in a darkness blacker than a hundred midnights. Oh, I've picked flowers in the springtime and smelled them, but I have never seen a daffodil. I've run my fingers over the faces of my friends to try to picture what they look like, but I've never seen even my own mother. I've heard people talk of the rainbow and the beautiful colors it contains, but I have never seen a color, except one - eternal blackness.