Catalyst

[MangusKhan]

Do you mind me asking which eye it was? I have an interest in eye-related trauma as catalyst. I feel there's a great depth of symbology to the loss of an eye.

It is my left eye.  I got in a fight w/this guy, and his friends jumped in.  My retina cracked, hemmoraged - all i see is light, now.

Up until then, i got in alot of fights and always won and thought God was on my side since I never started any of them.  Many times, I stepped in to protect other people.  This last time, the guy was blocking my entrance to the back yard and was mad that i was trying to get by.

I havent gotten in a fight since.

How would you interpret this event?

Well it seems straightforward enough that you had been seeing life in a combative light, basically through the perspective of a negatively transformed mind, the "left hand path", seeing through the left eye. This attracted conflicts to your life, or those conflicts were pre-planned, and this would constitute the phase of your life in which you got in touch with that violent and controlling part of yourself. I don't mean to insinuate that you are evil or anything, "the battle" is a pretty big thing in this space/time. Someone has to fight, even in the name of good. So then comes your final battle, and the associated eye injury of the left eye. This basically symbolises the closing of the combative phase of your life, so now you can only see through the right eye, now you have to walk the right-hand path. Surely a challenge after so many instances of uncontested dominance.

This sort of catalyst is the other side of the coin for right-eye injuries, in which an otherwise loving entity begins a journey of power and control, now being able to only see through the left eye.

Just my take. I feel like you already understood the significance of the catalyst and came to your own conclusions before I wrote this, and I'm sure not all eye injuries carry such heavy meaning. Surely there is room for completely random trauma.