It has been about four years since I got my first pair of glasses, and I still remember what it was like when I first put that pair of brown spectacles on my baby browns…mainly because for the first time I realized that leaves were actually distinguishable from one another at a distance, so you can already tell this was truly a life-changing moment. I didn’t know however, how life changing just simply putting on a pair of glasses would be in life. Here are seven life moments that I’m sure all of my fellow glasses-wearing brothers and sisters can relate to:
1. Now EVERY time before going out somewhere where vision is necessary (so basically every time you go out) you have to make sure you have your glasses or contacts:
Or else you’d end up looking like this:
While everything more than five feet away looks like this:
2. If you do end up forgetting your glasses or contacts for class, you have to decide which risk is worth taking; sitting closer to the board to see but stealing someone else’s seat, or not seeing at all for that day. (I usually choose the not seeing.)
3. Pretty much everyone you know will ask to try on your glasses at some point in your relationship (and if you let them try them on that's a big deal).
Meaning that they will inevitable put the frames on their face and immediately scream out, “WOW you’re blind! I can’t see anything out of these!”
4. When you do get new glasses, it’s overwhelming with the amount of choices you have. Shape of frame, color, sunglasses, I mean the possibilities are truly endless.
5. Trying on contacts for the first time means sitting in your eye doctor’s office for hours because you physically cannot touch your eye and then it just simply will not open because it knows you're trying to touch it (no? just me?).
(But then when you finally DO get them in it’s truly even a whole new world from glasses like who knew things could be even CLEARER?)
6. You have at some point of your life traded glasses with someone to see if you were the same amount of blind (no one ever measures up to me).
7. When you get new glasses or contacts and people can’t recognize you anymore. (Glasses are so helpful when going incognito apparently).
So whether you have been wearing glasses your whole life, or more recently received this #blessing of losing your eyesight as I have, I’m sure you will find all of these relatable. If not, just wait, for you got a whole full life fill with glasses-wearing ahead of you. (Unless you get Lasik eye surgery and to you I say, good luck my friend.)
