A blessing?

The blind cannot see what is before them,  and the deaf cannot hear. 

A blessing, or a curse.  I think it all depends on what is before you.
Some inside have wished to be blind or deaf.  It has taken some time for me to figure out why.  Now I know.  The blind cannot see the horrors and the deaf cannot hear the screams.
We were neither blind nor deaf,  I guess we saw and heard it all.