I cannot bear to have any marks on my glasses lenses, they drive me to distraction!
I usually wear my glasses all the time but on sunny days I'll carry both my normal and a pair of prescription sunglasses so I can swap and the non-worn pair are always in a case. I'm simply FAR TOO CLUMSY to risk having them in a pocket even when I'm walking sedately!
Would a lanyard work better for you or is the likelihood of them falling out of a pocket again so remote that it's not worth changing existing habits?
Thanks for reading, K. And yes: numerous better ways to safeguard my glasses, but I think we are often happiest as undisturbed creatures of habit, whether bad or good!
This! I am the same with my iPad which cracked in Cambodia a couple of years ago because I stupidly took it to the pool and dared to read it without a screen protector or a case. 🙈
This kind of story is the only kind I want to read any more, Matt -- short, clear, direct, beautifully constructed prose. This line is such a fine metaphor: "...I can live with that floating speck, something tiny, barely noticeable, hardly a hindrance and not remotely a hardship and be grateful that this form still has function." At my advanced age, I remind myself every morning that this form still has function! And to just get over myself and make the most of it. I am sure, by now, your eye has learned to read around the mote.
I feel your pain - you find me polishing a lens for the nth time in the hope of removing that just-above-eye-level scrape that over these last months has failed to vanish
Totally relate to this. So much so that I have given up polishing my tv glasses now because the smear just doesn’t go away. Perhaps that’s why the shite tv I sometimes watch to declutter my brain works its magic?!
So relatable, the whole glasses in a case thing and yet written with such elegance! I love how you sometimes write on a normal, everyday ( for some of us) events and bring them into the light! 🥰
I cannot bear to have any marks on my glasses lenses, they drive me to distraction!
I usually wear my glasses all the time but on sunny days I'll carry both my normal and a pair of prescription sunglasses so I can swap and the non-worn pair are always in a case. I'm simply FAR TOO CLUMSY to risk having them in a pocket even when I'm walking sedately!
Would a lanyard work better for you or is the likelihood of them falling out of a pocket again so remote that it's not worth changing existing habits?
Thanks for reading, K. And yes: numerous better ways to safeguard my glasses, but I think we are often happiest as undisturbed creatures of habit, whether bad or good!
I dont wear glasses (yet) but join you as I read your wonderful piece through the cobweb of cracks across my phone's screen.
This! I am the same with my iPad which cracked in Cambodia a couple of years ago because I stupidly took it to the pool and dared to read it without a screen protector or a case. 🙈
This kind of story is the only kind I want to read any more, Matt -- short, clear, direct, beautifully constructed prose. This line is such a fine metaphor: "...I can live with that floating speck, something tiny, barely noticeable, hardly a hindrance and not remotely a hardship and be grateful that this form still has function." At my advanced age, I remind myself every morning that this form still has function! And to just get over myself and make the most of it. I am sure, by now, your eye has learned to read around the mote.
I’m also grateful for function every morning that I wake up! And very grateful for your close reading and comments, Sharron. Thank you.
I feel your pain - you find me polishing a lens for the nth time in the hope of removing that just-above-eye-level scrape that over these last months has failed to vanish
Totally relate to this. So much so that I have given up polishing my tv glasses now because the smear just doesn’t go away. Perhaps that’s why the shite tv I sometimes watch to declutter my brain works its magic?!
My condolences.
So relatable, the whole glasses in a case thing and yet written with such elegance! I love how you sometimes write on a normal, everyday ( for some of us) events and bring them into the light! 🥰