Woes of the Four Eyed

Although wearing glasses provide us—the visually impaired—a clearer sight of the world, it comes at a trade-off of struggles that only people who have to wear glasses understand. Here's a few reasons for everyone to truly understand and empathise why wearing glasses is quite often a bummer. 

It's a foggy situation

You had a rough day and you want to relax and enjoy your coffee at peace. You take a sip and your entire world turns blurry. To top it all off, if you're a klutz like me, you'll probably burn your tongue while you're at it too. Imagine how annoying it gets when that happens at every sip of coffee. There is a constant need of cleaning glasses every hour with the change in climatic conditions, especially when you get out of an air-conditioned room. Can't chill at peace can you?

"Honey, where are my glasses?"

I have stopped keeping count of the amount of times I have turned my room upside down looking for my glasses. It doesn't matter if you carefully placed it somewhere, your glasses will travel to another dimension and hide till you've given up all hopes just to find them placed carefully at the place you were sure you put them, or even worse, you find them placed carefully on the top of your head.

When it rains

Yeah the rain's lovely and all but you can't help but feel the dread, when you realise your glasses are going to look like wet car windows leaving stubborn water stains on your glasses.

Becoming a clean freak

You just cleaned your glasses and put them on carefully to avoid smudges and exactly 10 minutes later you notice blurry lines on your glasses. How'd they get there? One of those divine mysteries I suppose. You'd slowly notice your transition of becoming a clean freak when you realise how much that little smudge or speck of dust on the rims and corners of your glasses bug you. Let's also keep in mind that you can't clean spectacles the with any cloth, it has to be cotton or any other smooth fabric. And the next thing you realize, you have a cleaning kit ready just for your glasses.

The struggle of lying down 

Tired of sitting upright while reading a book or watching a movie so you want to cozy up a little, and lie down? Unfortunately if you're four eyed, that's not happening for you as your glasses will simply move up from the position of your eyes leaving you feeling extremely uncomfortable. Worst case scenario, if you're not careful you'll end up breaking them as well.

Physical Activity

Its unimaginably difficult performing any physical activity while wearing glasses because you run the risk of losing or breaking them. But even if you manage to not lose them somehow, the spectacles will slowly droop down from your face because of the sweat. How convenient.

Well at least all this comes at a cost of clearer vision and looking smart. Right? Right, guys? Please tell me I'm right. Please. Please send help.   

Nazifa Raidah is a paranoid teen who tries to dealing with her problems through food and memes but fails miserably. Send her life advice, music & movie suggestions at nazifa45678@gmail.com