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Google out my goggles
So don't be silly, glasses do not make you look less attractive. You can have so much fun with different frames and styles. I must admit however, that as a teen having to wear glasses was tough. I always felt most people were seeing the frame and not the person behind it. To this day, I still feel like people I get into superficial contact with, remember me as somebody with glasses. This on the other hand it is kind of OK also, because you probably know the cliché: glasses make you look smarter.
In contact with the lenses
Contact lenses have been for long years a no go for me. I was really put off by the idea that I would have something applied directly on my retina. I din't really like the idea of having to pun my fingers into my eyes when putting it on and off. But there came that certain breakthrough point when I said I will try it.
Out of the fog, into the ligt
That certain point came because of aikido. At trainings I saw everything really blurry because I was not wearing glasses. There are people who wear glasses on the trainings. I personally felt it would hinder my freedom on movement and spoil the fun. I would have been concerned all the time about whether my glasses were about to fall off or not during a roll. So after briefly consulting with one of the senpai, I went there and bought those lenses. It opened a brand new dojo for me. The walls, the pictures, the clock in the dojo. The people's faces during the training: all these small thing became crystal clear. Training became a whole other experience. I am not sure how many of you can follow me, but I would persuade all the short sighted out there to give it a try.
I was mesmerized when I first put the lenses on. I could move my sight in all directions without being restricted by a frame. Because of that I could observe my environment in a different light. One of the most important teachings of aikido is indeed this perceiving of oneself in the context of one's environment. The lenses pushed me a small step forward towards progressing in that.
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All in all, I will not drop my glasses and wear lenses only. There are several reasons. On the one hand I work a lot on a computer, which dries my eyes. My eyes dry even quicker when I wear lenses. On the other hand were I to go to a job interview or i do a presentation, I might be tending to wear the glasses to have a more professional look (back to the smart-ass cliché, but watch out you might lose points in the team player category!) I adapt to my different activities:
Work and chilling at home, writing my blog (like right now),etc.- mostly glasses.
Free time, going for a walk on a sunny day in order to put on cute sunglasses, aikido training, date, whenever I want my make-up to stand out - lenses.
Ah...what the heck girls, the guys don't notice anyway... Sometimes I get the feeling we girls among ourselves notice it much better.
Hey, I followed your link from one of the problogger posts and I found this post was quite interesting, even though I don't wear glasses or contact lenses myself.
ReplyDeleteYou do have a great blog so I would imagine it would be quite disheartening to not of yet received any comments. I do hope you are still posting blogs, as I would most likely read them from time-to-time.
Just a quick tip, and please don't take any offense from this - I think it might be a good idea to just revise your posts before you actually post them, as I am able to find one or two errors. I don't mean to sound like someone who tries to point out all of your flaws, I just thought after reading the blog at problogger, I thought it would be a good idea to give you some feedback.
I am also sorry if my typing is not the best as I am typing this from an iPhone, and I tend to make a lot of errors as I find the keys too small.
I haven't yet got round to checking, but if you are still posting, I look forward to following your adventures.
Yours Sincerely,
Jayden
Thank you! This comment meant a lot to me. My internet was down for a few days and I was able to take a short look at your comment just at work. I was really looking forward to replying to it. Regarding the errors you are completely right. I do check my spelling a lot, but I am not a native and I tend to write my posts at night after work or on weekends. I know that is not an excuse. I will try harder. Happy to hear that you will be following me! I have some voice recordings about aikido you can listen at the bottom of the page or on my Youtube channel. And lots of posts to come!
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