[ WP ] Your doctor has discovered cancer in both of your eyes . Tomorrow , you are having life-saving surgery to have them removed . Describe your final day with vision before you go blind .

I'd always wondered what it would be like to go blind. 
 
 I mean, it ca n't be just that you see nothing but blackness. Because if you do n't have eyes, you ca n't really see an absence of light, can you? 
 
 I do n't know, but I will soon enough. 
 
 The empty road stretches before me, dashed lines flash alongside the small rental hatchback. 
 
 Huh. I wo n't be able to drive anymore, I probably should have sprung for something more interesting to drive. Or maybe I should have rented a bike. I'll miss riding. It'll be interesting to try to sell the bikes without being able to use the internet myself. 
 
 The doctors told me that I should n't wait. That I needed to have the surgery today. I told them that another twenty four hours probably would n't kill me. Well, it probably could, but this is worth it. I need this. 
 
 The stars are bright tonight. I'd like to see the moon again, but I'm glad it's not out.. Out here, it's dark enough to see the whole milky way stretch across the sky above me. I'd love to stop and spend more time looking at it without a telescope, but I'm barely going to make it already. Maybe after. 
 
 I see the sign for my exit and slide off the freeway. It's been a long few days, and the last minute flight had wiped out most of my savings, but it will be worth it. 
 
 Heck, I'm lucky I even have a chance like this. It's amazing how hard it is to find these days, between all of the technological advances over the last decade or two, nobody has time to go out, sit down, and enjoy themselves anymore. And owners are n't going to waste valuable time showing something that everyone's already seen. 
 
 I follow the winding, two lane road for a few miles before I start to see the lights of the small town glowing above the hills. It was quaint, with the last vestiges of lost Americana clinging on for dear life. I smile to myself. 
 
 I pull into the parking lot lit by the glow of a flickering neon sign and extricate myself from the little Korean car. I *really* should have picked something better, but at least there are n't any other cars in the lot to compare it to. 
 
 I step up to the building and hand a wad of cash to a bored-looking teenager and continue on inside. Only room is active now, and it's about to start. 
 
 Not surprisingly, I appear to be the only one in the room. This place's website said that it would be closing soon. It's a bit sad, but understandable. I'm glad it lasted long enough to give me this chance. To see it the way it was supposed to be seen. 
 
 I swear I can see a cloud of dust puff up around me as I sit down in one of the ancient chairs. Almost the moment that I get myself settled, the room begins to dim as faint blue letters appear on the screen before me. 
 
 `` A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...'' 
 
 My eyes begin to water. 
 
 It's not the cancer.
