hope that I get old before I die
Archived from February 5, 2010
How my glasses make me feel:
When I'm awake and up and it's light out and they're off, I realize how long it's been since I was last awake with them off (months; years?). Then I get sad, I realize, this is who I really am--this is how I really see the world. I spend 85% of my time staring at a glowing rectangle through thick lenses. My world is always mediated.
My old man likes to tease me, when my glasses are off in the morning in bed. "Can you see my face? What about now? How many fingers am I holding up?" He is always surprised anew to find how close he can be to me and still be a blur.
I remember getting my very first glasses. I was seven years old, and they came in the mail and my dad brought them to me at school. They were pink. I thought it was so cool, to have glasses. Nobody else had glasses. I of course was not thinking about the lifelong handicap just beginning. And anyway, as far as handicaps go, in this day and age I'd say this is the most manageable one. Still, to be so supremely handicapped should always give one pause. All the glasses-wearers of the world think sometimes to themselves of fires and cataclysms, of midnight rapes, and how helpless they would be. I think of Piggy breaking his glasses and then clinging desperately to the one lens still un broken but then everyone stole it anyway to make fire with and then Piggy totally got murdered.
I sometimes think I should write my prescription down on an ID bracelet so if the world ends I could break into an optometrist's office and find some contacts that matched my needs.
In conclusion: when I get me some money, I'm getting laser surgery. What's the point of advancements in medical science if you don't use them to make your life more awesome? And when I get laser surgery, I'm going to
- buy a real pair of sunglasses
- go swimming
- wake up in the night and go walk around the house like it's no big deal
- fall asleep laying on my side watching a movie
- bury my face in somebody's chest when they hug me
- play intense contact sports
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