I wanted to take a quick moment to share with you my latest love, my glasses.
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I don't know why my hand is on my head, but it is. Glasses - Marc Jacobs[/caption]I know that saying you love your glasses is totally the strangest thing a person could say on a blog, but really I am so happy to have these babies in my life right now! I went about 2 and a half months without glasses so having them on my face feels great.
You see my darling puppy, Penny, found my old glasses on a table around Thanksgiving. She likes very expensive things so of course she thought they were a new chew toy just for her.
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She may look cute, but she is destroying my whole house and wardrobe.[/caption]She got a hold of my glasses and did this!
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How did she bite a hole in them?[/caption]I know this might be hard to believe but I couldn't use them to see anymore. I would get dizzy because the prescription was jacked up and there was a hole in the lens.
Three months later I finally went to the eye doctor. I actually decided to change doctors because I did not like my old one very much. If anyone in Orange County area is looking for a great eye doctor Dr. Swearingen at OC Eyecare is both amazing and funny. A rare combination for an eye doctor.
I have had my new glasses for two weeks and I am so happy I can see again. Perhaps you have noticed less typos? This is because I can actually see what I am typing again.
My excitement over my glasses is actually strange to me. Growing up I actually hated glasses. I have had to wear them all my life and I would try to rebel against it as often as I could buy not wearing glasses to school. Who needs to see the white board or your book or your homework?
I was actually born with cataracts in my eyes and had to have my lenses removed when I was just a baby. Yes folks I was born with the eyes of your 80-year-old grandma, actually most of my family was. The science name for it is congenital cataracts and you can read the Wikapedia article here.
I can not remember a time without glasses, contacts or really both. I have to wear contacts to correct for the vision I lost when I had my lens removed as a baby. Then I get to wear glasses over that like one would to correct vision to read or drive. Of course when I was little I hated contacts so I opted for this option for five years. No one made fun of me ever (yeah right).
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This photo was also taken on my neon pink ninja turtle camera. #swag[/caption]It probably didn't help that I thought showing all your teeth was required for a proper smile.
Anyway after years of hating my glasses, teenage years of refusing to wear them at school, and times people were just mean I have finally come to realize that I do not care. I am so happy that I can see and grateful for my vision. Really I could be in a lot worse situation. I can drive, read, work, do anything I want to. I just have to wear contacts and glasses at the same time and go to the eye doctor more than you do. In the scheme of life that ain't so bad.
I am in many ways grateful for my eye and the life I have had because I had something a little different about me. I think it made me a more empathetic person. I know what it is like to not like something about yourself and want to change it but you can not. I know what it is like for ignorant hurting people to try to hurt you for something you can not control. I know that it is not fair, but I know that it is what it is and that is OK.
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Rocking the glasses at a concert with my mom.[/caption]So the eyes have it! It being my love, because they are the only eyes I have and I am grateful for what I have.
What is something you have struggled/still struggle with loving about yourself?
What is something that you love about yourself?
