Glasses

I have a pair of glasses, but only wear it on one occasion --- watching movies. (There was another occasion before I finished uni --- looking at white board in lecture, but, thank God, it is not the case anymore.) Last week, my boyfriend and I went to cinema to watch "The Upside of Anger". I didn't take my bag and glasses case, so I had no place to put my glasses before arriving cinema but on my nose! Sitting in the car while he was driving to cinema and looking around through my glasses for 10 seconds, I took them off and said:

"I don't like the world I saw through glasses."

"Why?"

"Because everything is too bloody clear!"

"&%**$#%!&"

…

Another 10 seconds passed, he returned to normal.

(Laughed) "My weird girl, I never ever heard someone saying they don't like glasses because it makes too clear!"

I know he didn't get me, so I explained:

"Without glasses, I see everything nice and natural, not too strong, not too vague. For things nearby, they're clear enough to recognize from one to another; for those in distance, a bit blur gives me rooms for imagination. It's like a piece of art. But with glasses, everything is standing there, small and cold, no imagination and feelings, like letters from copy machine."

I'm still not sure he understood me eventually, but I didn't wear glasses until the movie was on.

First posted at 3 June 2005