Because it’s a known fact that anxiety and haste; nervous excitement, affects the eyes.
There are people who are blind today just because of emotional disturbances. I know a man who is totally blind and he explained to me that it's because of excitement. He's an Orthodox Jew and his son was straying off the road. There were battles in the house and the excitement aggravated his diabetes and it led to blindness. I remember we were seated in a taxi together and he was crying to me that he's becoming blind because of his arguments with his son.
Now, most people don’t take it that far but we all suffer from p’siyah gasah to some extent. What are people doing all week? They’re running around. Even if you don’t have a son making you crazy, but you have someone else who does; maybe a wife or a husband or a neighbor. Or you have other things. Everything is an emergency. I have to catch this customer. I have to catch that customer. I have to do this. I have to pay these bills and my account is in overdraft. I have to make this and that phone call. People are worried all week and it’s affecting their eyes.
Now, don’t misunderstand me; there’s nothing wrong with being a hustler. You have to hustle to make a living; you have to hustle to raise a family too. But it depends how you hustle. If you’re hustling with your body, very good. But when you hustle with your emotions, when you’re anxious and worried and rushing, that p’siyah gasah, that hasty step, damages the eyesight.
