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This paper aims to highlight the true dimensions of the interpersonal relationships and the professional rehabilitation in the life of the non-sees. How prominent it is for these people to find a job, what they think the employment will offer them and how they can develop their interpersonal relationships. The participants were all females with partial or total visual impairment aged from 19 to 31 old. The group consists of 9 people with vision problems who are all members of the Pan-Hellenic Association of the blind people of Thessaloniki. My thoughts and wondering were reported to answer to semi-structured interview questions in order to investigate the theme of this paper. After the interviews, the transcripts of these interviews were followed and the results that are essentially presented as desires and life objectives of people with visual disabilities. The results then were categorized into 4 major groups: education, employment rehabilitation, social exclusion and mobility. In the present paper a more extensive reference will be made to each category. From the results and the analysis of the interviewee’s data we can draw the conclusions that the measures are taken by the European Union through the educational policy against social exclusion as far as at least Greece is concerned are insufficient and prevent people with visual impairment from becoming independent and autonomous, a goal that, as emerges from the present researcher, is considered to be a priority. In particular, non-sees want to move on their own, in a more secure friendly city. They want to be able to go to their schools and have the adequate support from the education system, which will allow them to study their lessons. They also wish to have professional rehabilitation and to be treated as members of the society, which is their inalienable right.