I Almost Forgot How To Use My Eyes

So I learned it

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People don’t think about their eyes often. Of how they’re at work all the time, even as we’re asleep.

I had a minus three (now minus 12) when I was in the first grade, wearing glasses when nobody else my age did. Naturally, I felt embarrassed to wear them to the class. I had but, the fear of looking different. On my first day with glasses, I asked my sister to drop me at the classroom door because I was afraid. Standing at the door, I was still unprepared to step inside. I just kept looking at my sister, hoping she doesn’t leave. That’s when one of my friends came by and accompanied me inside.

That was the only hurdle I had to cross to feel as normal as others. But then it brought along with it — seventeen years of worldview through the lens. And I know, I know some people have had them on for longer. But the sad part is, when a five-year-old has them on for that long, she forgets what it feels like to see with just eyes.

I got used to wearing them and hearing the gig-lamp jokes. I didn’t mind them, to be honest. Because those glasses had now become a part of who I was. They didn’t signify a defect. To me, they were equivalent to what just eyes are to people.

But I could only go on like that until a point. A point when I began yearning to feel what people…