I have about twenty pairs of magnifying glasses spread all over my life. They’re in my house, they’re in my car, they’re in my office, they’re on my head, and yet I can rarely find them when needed.
I have all sorts of magnifications – 1.25, 1.75, 2.00, 2.25 — depending upon when I bought them. I always know when I put on the lower magnification because I squint more. Yet, I still won’t throw them away.
There are times I try to forego the glasses completely, which has resulted in the following:
- Greasy hair, since I use my conditioner as shampoo.
- Loss of a critical moment in a television show, as I confuse the volume button with the channel button.
Drowsiness at work because that morning I mistakenly took a nighttime allergy pill.- Staying up all night since that evening I mistakenly took a daytime allergy pill.
- Answering the phone when it’s yet another telemarketer because I couldn’t read the phone number.
- Frightening appearance since I applied mascara to only one eye.
When I use my eye-glasses, words on the page become miraculously clear. I’m eternally grateful for that fact. The problem is I then look into a mirror, and the new-found clarity is not nearly as appreciated.
Suddenly the beautiful, natural rouge I noticed on my cheeks turns into broken blood vessels. The one made-up eye is clearly seen. My perfectly smooth neck instantly acquires a plethora of wrinkles. The dust on my end tables becomes glaringly clear. My perfectly white house has splotches of mold on it. That close-up profile picture is not nearly as youthful as I thought.
So, I’m torn. To wear glasses or not to wear glasses?
I’ve decided to wear them when I read, but whip off them in one sexy move when I look in the mirror. There’s no need to magnify our flaws - we do that enough on our own. We need only to believe in our beauty.
My husband needs glasses, but he currently thinks I look like I’m twenty-five-years-old. I’d like for that mirage to continue, so I’m encouraging his vanity and telling him there is no need for those crazy glasses.
Failing eye-sight is like the softening of nature’s camera lense, and I believe we should keep things God intended.
Besides, I’d like to be twenty-five for a little longer.
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Donnah22…I loved your article and really related it it.
I would like all my friends to not wear their glasses when they’re around me. That way I wouldn’t have to worry about possible nose hairs, wayward eyebrow hairs which are now turning white and the few wiry hairs that I now have on my legs and am too lazy to do anything about them cuz there are so few.
Of course I do have younger friends who are able to see all of these aging flaws. Maybe magnifying glasses for them would do the trick. Then they wouldn’t be able to see anything either!
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