"A sight for sore eyes."
It's really a beautiful expression. It is perhaps a little cheapened by it's heavy, cliched usage, but if you take a minute to think about it, it's really very pretty.
"Sore eyes." Sore implies too much use. Imagine- having eyes that are always sore. To have experienced so much, to be so jaded and world weary as to have sore eyes --to be so unenthusiastic about life that even looking out at it is a painful exercise-- how awful. One of my favorite lyrics is, "Now let me close my eyes cause I don't wanna see anything anymore." It implies an unthinkable level of pain, weariness, hopelessness.
And to be the recipient of such a complement. To be someone with the power to inject new life and enthusiasm into a splintered, dried up human being. To be the one that makes even looking at the world with pained eyes worthwhile again.
How incredible.
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i really like this.
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