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12 Problems Only People with Glasses Will Understand

17th May 2008. The day my dreads became reality:
I got my first pair of glasses.
I'd seen it coming for a few months prior to it, but there was still a part of me clutching on to the idea that perhaps my eyesight was just blurry because of the side effects of some peculiar, undiagnosed illness I'd had. Yeah, I was pretty desperate.
However, just because the optician tells you to start wearing glasses, that doesn't mean you to have to, right? ...Wrong, but that's what I did anyway, up until late 2012, when it got to the stage where I felt like my grades were being affected by my near-sightedness. 
Don't get me wrong- I don't have anything against glasses-wearers; in fact, I genuinely do believe glasses can look sublime. It's just the hassle of wearing them that frustrates me to this very day.

  1. If you forget your glasses, you're completely, and utterly, stuck. Every activity you attempt to complete at work that day becomes 19842 times more difficult, and you begin to contemplate whether pulling a tonne of bricks along would be easier.
  2. Sunglasses or glasses? Glasses or sunglasses? Or, do you double up and wear sunglasses AND glasses? 
  3. Sport becomes an even greater hassle. Wear your glasses, and risk being smashed in the face with basketball, butchering the bridge of your nose, or don't your glasses, and run around with your hockey stick ready to strike the ball but, um, not being able to find it.
  4. The number of times you've greeted a stranger down the street after mistaking them for one of your friends equals the number of times you've completely blanked an actual friend as you didn't see them. So, so awkward. 
  5. Those weekly trips to the opticians to adjust/change/update your glasses become a tad bit tedious. You know, just a little...
  6. Swimming. Wear your glasses in the pool and the lenses steam up, completely destroying the purpose of them. Don't wear them and you crash. It's a win-win situation, right...
  7. Foundation seems to draw attention to your flaws instead of concealing them as the glasses seem to cause an avalanche of the liquid to slide down from the bridge of your nose. Too hot, I tell you.
  8. If you only wear glasses on a part-time basis, every single time you put your specs on, someone exclaims their surprise that you wear glasses and everyone who heard them turns and stares, like you're some supernatural species.
  9. And, following on from point 8, every time you don't wear them, the same people put their hands up and ask how many fingers their holding up. Believe or not, people, you can see past 5cm in front of your face...
  10. Roller coasters.
  11. Close contact with anyone has to be dealt with caution as otherwise you know you're going to pull out of it with one lens over your eyebrow and one resting, slanted, on your cheek. Smooth.
  12. Whenever discussing who is most like which character in Harry Potter, you never fail to end up with the protagonist, purely down to the fact you wear a piece of plastic on your face. 
Any other things about glasses that bother you? Feel free to moan!
Florrie x
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