With apologies to Lewis Carroll.
Yes I have a few lines around my eyes and the skin on the back of my hands is looking a bit dry. The spring in my step is a little less bouncy and my ability to recall the words of decades old songs is frankly a little unnerving but nothing makes me feel as old as having to hold things away from my eyes to focus.
I hate it.
Moving the text away from your eyes to focus fairly screams “old”. And it’s not that I can’t focus, it just takes me longer and sometimes – say early in the morning – I can’t read the fine print on the back of the expensive hair stuff that goes with my GHD styling irons (have I told you how fabulous they are?). What’s up with that?!
Still it’s a big step to say yes to reading glasses. I thought I was ready for them last week when a long session of reading aloud fine print (cyclone warnings for hours on end) left me with the beginnings of a migraine, so when my son was getting fitted for his new specs I tried on a few pairs.
Recoiling in horror from the vision of an old person in the mirror I tried in vain to imagine myself wearing them at work. Vain is probably the right word. Do I really want to give up and wear glasses? Is it giving up?
I’m tempted to say yes. I can remember my mother going through the same battle. She refused for years to wear glasses, choosing instead to do eye exercises and wear these odd black plastic pin-hole things that made her look like a human fly. The war against glasses continued for years – she managed to hold out til the age of 43. An impressive effort I’m thinking now.
Groover has been noticing his eyesight failing too but he at 42 is determined to hold out for at least another year. We’ll see how long it takes him to reach for my glasses to read the fine print!
So yes it is giving up. I know that getting glasses will increase my dependence on them and I should hold out as long as I can. It’s lazy. And expensive. In my defence I offer up the (over)use of computers and other small screens and the fact that the average age for needing glasses is 40.
The fact is holding the print away from your eyes and squinting looks older than wearing trendy new specs… so there!
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I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 18 so I’m pretty well accustomed… although I agree that reading glasses take it to another level altogether!
I wear ‘driving glasses’, and in the winter, when the light is not as good.
I love it, as they go with my winter wardrobe and make me look like an urban intalektual.
Which I like
Very much.
Glasses are sexy. Remember those hot librarians in the cock-rock video-clips of old ? Tight bunned and suited, ruby-red lippy, sexy glasses, and chewing on a pencil ? Then they’d go all sexy and let their hair down ?
That’s what I think about glasses.
Too much info ?
Work it.
was it something I said ?
the partially rude language ?
( testing, due to two eaten comments on this post )
eaten a 3rd time. Obviously my suggestive language and imagery about the sexiness of glasses …..
Hi H&B – the cock rock comment did it I think – you were caught by the ever efficient Akismet Spam Filter!
I want to see a photo of your glasses – they sound awesome!
CB
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Well, they don’t turn me into one of those rock video librarians .. but they give me the confidence to IMAGINE I do …..
I shall endeavour to be spec’ed in my specs at some stage in the future for you ..