“Well it often happens that people with good eyesight fail to see what is right in front of them”—When did the speaker say so? What is speaker’s point of this view?

Answer:     In Ruskin Bond’s story The Eyes Have It, at Rohana station, a blind girl got in the same lonely compartment of the narrator. Being blind she did not notice the narrator. On the other hand, as the narrator was also a blind man, he could not discover the blindness of the girl and due to curiosity about the girl, he asked her whether she was going all the way to Dehra. It startled the girl very much and when she replied that she had not seen him, the narrator made this remark.
 

          According to the narrator, the people who have good eye-sight, often fail to see or notice what is right in front of them because they have so much to see and sometime they become so careless about their circumstances that they cannot see everything.