My waffle today is on the topic of eyesight and in particular glasses. I just have to ramble this out as this morning my glasses are driving me mad.
Firstly, I got up without putting them on, I went about my morning routine oblivious, quite literally. It was only as I sat down in front of the tv, that I realised, it’s a hazy day for me today so was hard to tell.
Glasses feel weird to me now, I usually wear contact lenses; I keep one pair in for the whole month, sleeping in them day and night, it was a surprise to me that I can do this but since discovering this from a lovely optician some years ago, I have not looked back, literally.
Recently my eyes have been very dry, and I felt it was time to give them a break, I ordered new glasses as my back up pair are unattractive, and I don’t like to wear them in public. I spent the weekend inactive in them, so it is only now I am putting them to the test, what a pest they are, firstly, I seem to have spent the morning up and down stairs to find them. Then they are just weird, now I regret the vain choice, they are narrow, and I can see the world around them from the corners and all around making the world feel very sickly. Then what’s with the steam? outdoors they cloud over and returning indoors even worse, what a pain, and the rain, now I remember why I always carried a cap with a wide peak.
So, thumbs up for contacts, they are a necessity, vision issues are a part of this lurgy and now I remember why I signed up for a monthly scheme to keep me in eyes, yes, I think of them as eyes, I have an astigmatism and so they are weighted and need to be in one place, I spend a lot of time, winking them back into position while this is irritating, compared to glasses I am reminded not to complain.
I spend my life feeling blind as a bat, like a mole coming up into the blinding sun, seeing only to the end of my nose. There is a delay between my vision and my brain processing the image, I see and don’t see, if you get me. Anyway, more of that another day, for now I have vented my frustration at these pretty frames on my face, reminded bigger is better for glasses, but constant plastic stuck to your eyeballs is better still.
Chris.x
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