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Contacts, What a Dream
It all started when I was in second or third grade. Before going
to bed every night, my parents and I would read together, usually a
chapter or two from a book I couldn't yet manage on my own (the
Chronicles of Narnia stand out most in my memory). Maybe I knew
that I was bound to be near sighted since both of my parents were,
or maybe I'd seen somebody I admired on TV who was wearing glasses,
but whatever the inspiration, I had the sudden desire to wear
glasses. One night I starting squinting and pulling the book closer
to my face, trying to show my parents that my eyesight was failing
and that I needed glasses. I must not have been very convincing
because nothing came of it, and after two weeks of trying, I
abandoned the act.
My First Pair of Glasses
Several years later, my eyesight really did start to decline, but
now I was significantly less keen on wearing glasses than I had
previously been. Instead of making a show of needing to get my eyes
checked, I did all that I could to hide the fact. I succeeded in
hiding it for so long, in fact, that when I finally put on my new
glasses for the first time, I was stunned. I had never seen (or
noticed) such detail or definition. There were individual leaves on
the tree just outside the door and the sign on the other side of
the street actually had words written on it. I didn't know that a
person's vision could be this good.
It didn't take too long, however, before I realized how much
more nerdy my glasses made me look than I already was. The huge,
bright-blue wire rims, though thin, were much too big for my small
face. Worse still, they didn't like to stay on my nose and were
constantly slipping down. By consequence, I developed the
subconscious habit of crinkling my nose in an attempt to handlessly
push the glasses back up to where they belonged, a habit which
inspired a new nickname of "Rabbit." For the next three years,
contact lenses topped my Christmas list.
The Great Change
I don't know whether it was my parents' concern that I would
neglect my contact lens care or their unwillingness to shell out
the big bucks that kept them from allowing me to get contact
lenses. It wasn't until I started playing lacrosse my freshman year
of high school that I was finally able to convince them that
getting contacts was not only a good idea but a necessity. I was
lacking enough in athletic ability as it was, that practicing
without my glasses was just a bad idea altogether. And when I got
hit in the face with one too many balls--it was only one, but still
one too many--the decision was final.
Contacts. Finally. What a dream. Had I been a little more
daring, I might have gone for something crazy like special effect
lenses, wild eyes, or even just colored lenses. But as it was, I
was too elated to be shedding the horrid glasses to care about
whether my eyes were green, brown, electric blue, or feline.
The Next Step
Since I gave up playing lacrosse long ago and my prejudice against
glasses has worn off, some may say that it's time I take the next
logical step in my eye care progression and get laser eye surgery.
I just shake my head and reply that I'm still quite content with my
contacts and won't be taking that step anytime in the near future.
Maybe it's because I'm poor; maybe it's because I'm skeptical. Or
maybe it's because I haven't forgotten what a dream it was to
finally get contact lenses.
Hillary loves doing puzzles on the Internet, reading Harry
Potter, and running half marathons. For more information on contact
lenses and contact care, visit http://www.discountcontacts.info.
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