00:00So apparently if doctors tell you that you have one year before you go blind,
00:04you do what any normal person would do. You book a one-way ticket to a random village in Nepal.
00:17Growing up, my vision was drastically worsening over time, and so I went into the eye doctor
00:23and they took a look at my eyes. We did a lot of exams, a lot of testing, and they
00:28told me
00:29that I had a year until I would completely lose my eyesight because of how extreme my myopia is,
00:37which is like I have extreme nearsightedness, and they also noticed that there was a lot of thinning
00:42in the back of my retina, and so I didn't have basically any options at that point. And that
00:51moment kind of shifted my whole mindset, and I was like, why do I have to live in fear of
00:58what's
00:58going to come? And I decided, hmm, what if I chose to live my dream life, what I've always wanted
01:05to do
01:05now? And so my first decision was to book a one-way ticket to Nepal at 19 years old and
01:13live in a remote
01:14mountain village for three months by myself. And I was the only English speaker in the village,
01:18and that completely shifted my whole perspective on life. Now it's been three years since that
01:25doctors told me that, but I actually just got amazing news. Just two days ago, I went to see the
01:31eye doctors again, and they told me that I may be eligible for LASIK now, which could save my vision.
01:38Being able to experience it all, the good and the bad, like herding yaks with nomadic shepherds in
01:44Kyrgyzstan, or being stuck in a cave for three days and surviving to tell the tale. Like, I wake up
01:52every day and I'm like, wow, I can see.
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