ContentFor the past three years, everything a few feet away from me has looked like this:
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I suspected that it wasn’t healthy for me to keep squinting, but one thing or another always kept me from getting my eyes checked out. But last week it started getting so ridiculous that I finally went to see a doctor, and he recommended that I begin using reading glasses, did an examination, and made a prescription. Today I picked the new glasses up, and, no joke, things now look like this:
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The difference is shocking. Even after one day wearing them I feel like I can read without effort for the first time in forever. I didn’t even know that the world was this sharp. I just figured it wobbled a bit all the time.
Apparently I have an astigmatism, about which the doctor whom I met briefly with today said something to the effect of “whoa? First glasses? I’d imagine you’d be getting headaches in about an hour of looking at the screen.” Thanks, doc.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure they do make me look smarter. Just look at me trying to figure out where the keyboard is…
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And, wham, suddenly even Gravity’s Rainbow started making sense…
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