Did you ever go looking for your glasses only to discover them on your head? Welcome to my world – only now it gets a bit more complicated. Somebody somewhere said things improve with age – they clearly were not talking about eyesight. I’ve been shortsighted for as long as I can remember and wear them for TV and driving. The rest of the time I tend to walk around in blissful ignorance with my glasses on my head doubling up as a hairband (I know – not good for the glasses), so if you wave at me from the other side of the street, chances are I’ll wave back, but I won’t have a clue who I’m waving at or whether it’s me that’s being waved at in the first place. Is it vanity? I don’t think so, more an altered view of the world at large in soft focus.
Okay, so what I hear you say? No biggie… yes, you’re right until age gets factored into the equation and all of a sudden I need reading glasses.😲🙄 Horror of horrors! I can quite happily exist seeing everything in soft focus except my book.
I juggled with pushing the book further away from me. Then I put the glasses on only to discover I was trying to use them for something they weren’t designed for. Eventually I turned into the epitome of what many may be able to relate to – I turned down the radio so I could see better (and no it doesn’t work but it does focus you on a single task). So, loath as though I am to admit it, I became the person with 3 different types of glasses; prescription sunglasses for driving (have also been known to watch TV with them on in the dark when I cant find the other ones) , the aforementioned “other ones” for when the sun doesn’t shine, which if you take into account that I’m Irish, is most of the time, and now the reading glasses, which I kinda have a grudge against. Sound familiar?
Oh god, it’s a dose – never having the correct ones on when you need them. In short, I have succumbed to the Varifocals, reckoning that one pair will hopefully cover all requirements….
So,super-d-dooper glasses that even have cool clip on sunglasses bits come with a price tag and a breaking in period – so far not so good. Suffice to say I type without them 🤓😂🤔 as I can’t seem to get used to them. This lark of moving head for close up and eyes for far away or something like that has me gripping on to a table, desk or chair as I forget I’m wearing them and get “gofaster stripes” in my peripheral vision ( should wear them on a night out, I’d save myself a fortune). Patience is a virtue. I’m going to persevere
Watch this space, with or without glasses.
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