On a more depressing note

[erilyn]

My sister has been having some eye trouble lately, and got glasses this week. She'd commented that she was shocked when she put them on, she didn't realise her long distance vision wasn't as good as she thought ("I can see leaves so clearly on trees!"). I laughed at her.

When we were wandering around outside the Opera House last night, enjoying twilight by the harbour before the peformance started, she was wearing her glasses. I borrowed them and popped them on, so we could see how I looked in them.

"Oh shit" I say, as the distant trees in the botanical gardens are suddenly so much crisper against the pink and blue sky.

"Ha ha ha ha" goes my sister and parents (both glasses wearers, dad all the time since his twenties, mum for the past ten years or so, for reading and stuff).

Guess you can only fight genetic inevitability so long. They're ok for now, but I bet by the time I'm thirty that might change.

Comments

[sinden.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the club *g*

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks ;p

[sinden.livejournal.com]

*snerk*
Don't worry about it, you get used to it *g*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

It's all that porn... we were warned!

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Who knew they were telling the truth??? ;)

[tboy.livejournal.com]

Heee, same thing happened to me. I was travelling through America, and while watching the ships come in on the Willamet River one day, a friend loaned me his glasses. Suddenly I could see. It was astonishing. So clear! It hurt to give the glasses back to him.

I finished my trip in the sullen knowledge that I wasn't 'seeing' America, I was travelling by Braille.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

What a bugger for you :( Luckily, it's not that bad for me...yet!