Showing posts with label eyelid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eyelid. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2015

Eyelid

Shafeen is my 6 years old son. He just came in an age when he started to discover the world. One day he asked me, “Mother, I can’t keep open my eyes for long time. Every now and then I had to close it. Otherwise it hurts.”

I replied, “It’s OK my son, it’s very natural. As a human we need to keep our eyes watery, so every now and then it automatically closes to avoid the dryness.”

Shafeen, “IC, that’s why fishes don’t have eyelid. They are in the water always, so they don’t need to do anything to keep their eyes wet…”