I picked up my new glasses today, and I nearly broke into tears when putting them on for the first time. Well, part of that was involuntary, since the focus is so incredibly different from my old glasses. What amazed me the most wasn’t being able to read fine print on a box across the room, or to read the street signs several blocks down the road… It was seeing birds in the sky about a mile away. It reminded me of the first time I got glasses, back in 8th grade. I was amazed that trees actually had leaves when you stood far away. Everything is in near perfect focus now. One startling thing was to realize that I could focus on the dashboard of my Jeep vibrating. At first I though I had given up some close distance vision, but then I read something much closer on a steady cd case. With my old glasses, I must have just assumed that the dashboard was steady and I was simply losing my focus. Eyes are strange things, aren’t they? This is a fitting upgrade for my journeys, since I will need new eyes to look at the world with. I don’t want to miss a single bird or leaf.
In other news, my bags are packed with all of the clothing that I feel like keeping. Now I just have to find the room for all of my other stuff… Oh boy! I hope the bathroom scale is accurate enough… That fifty pound limit on check-in luggage might be a close call.
