Music Icon Stevie Wonder Explains Why Being Blind Is A “Blessing” for Him
Stevie Wonder maintains that he is able to “see people in the spirit of them” since he is blind.
The 75-year-old music icon revealed why he views his condition as a “blessing” while jokingly dismissing outrageous, long-running rumors that he isn’t blind.
“I must say to all of you, something that I was thinking, ‘When did I want to let the world know this?'” Stevie said to supporters at a recent performance in Cardiff, Wales.
However, I wanted to express it now. Rumors about me seeing and other things have been around, you know? But really, you are aware of the reality.
In actuality, I went blind not long after I was born.
That was fortunate for me because it gave me the ability to perceive the world through the eyes of sight and truth.
Consider a person’s character rather than their appearance. What color is their spirit, not what color they are?
The superstitious hitmaker earlier disclosed that he always made an effort to be optimistic, even though his mother Lula Mae Hardaway initially battled with his going blind.
“I was born,” he revealed last year in an installment of The Wonder of Stevie audiobook series. I became blind shortly after that. I had a profound experience with that because my mother went through the various things.
Following his diagnosis, his mother used to cry “every night,” and the Isn’t She Lovely? The vocalist made an effort to alter her opinion.
“[I told her], ‘Mama, you shouldn’t cry, you’re making my head hurt,'” he said. And I thought, “Perhaps God has something greater for me than all of this.” That was demonstrated by history.
Stevie used his platform to criticize international leaders at a recent performance in the UK, stating that those in positions of authority should utilize it to “bring peace to all the world.”
