While many TV shows and movies have told us that everyone looks worse with glasses, I could not disagree more. As someone who has both glasses and self-image issues, glasses were a gift sent from Heaven. Before I had glasses I didn’t realize the impact they would have on me, I got them in middle school when it became hard to see the whiteboard from where I sat.I first only used them in class, but after putting them away and taking them out over and over again, that got tiring so I just started wearing them all the time, which turned out to benefit me more than I thought. I believe my face looks better with glasses and I have now gotten to the point where looking at myself without glasses makes me look weird to myself.
Though I have gone through multiple different styles of glasses, all of them seem to make me look better, which made me feel better. Though it has opened opportunities for people to mess with me, like when someone stole my glasses in 8th grade and the day after I got a new pair they gave me my old pair back. Or when my uncle would compare me to Harry Potter non-stop when I swapped to a thinner, more circular frame. Glasses has also made life slightly harder in other ways, especially now with my glasses fogging up constantly and then taking ages to go away. I have also accidentally sat on my glasses many time after putting them on my bed and then forgetting they were there, which was a real problem when I had wire frames (they would bend a lot). Even more recently when one leg of my glasses broke in Hawaii and I was stuck using my sunglasses for the whole trip, which wasn’t bad, until I had to read menus from far away inside restaurants. But while having glasses comes with it’s cons, personally for me, they help me feel better about my face and help me see, which is really the main goal of glasses in the end.
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It is very nice to see somebody believe that glasses were a gift. With many people making glasses something to hate, your different perspective makes me think of glasses much differently. I don't use glasses, so I have no idea what it's like, but I can vividly just imagine so many of your little stories you described. Maybe glasses aren't so bad after all. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteAs someone who also wears glasses, I can relate to the struggles that you had to go through. Unlike the different styles that you had gone through with your glasses, I have kept my same style of frames since I had gotten them from like 8 years ago. Without the same frames and the glasses actually on my face, it feels weird as it doesn’t look like myself. Es[ecially with my frames, they have never broken before. I have only got new ones because of needing a stronger prescription.
ReplyDeleteIt’s nice to see somebody else who views glasses in such a positive light considering so many other people seem to struggle with it. Considering it’s such a vital component to how some people look, I kind of found it weird that some people saw it in such a negative light.
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