A new perspective

I recently got my new glasses. I’ve known and noticed for a while that a new pair was necessary, but kept putting it off. The ones I had still worked – of a sort. Yes, if the light wasn’t optimal, i.e. not super-bright or directly on the text, the words were a bit fuzzy and out of focus. On other occasions, my arms weren’t long enough to hold the book at a distance or the chair wasn’t far enough from the screen. I got used to it and made do. Did I notice that I tired easily when reading or working on the computer, that I was generally quite tired at the end of the day. Yeah! But I thought to myself as long as I can still decipher the words, there is no real need to upgrade and get it fixed. And I can manage most things.

Then someone gave me a discount voucher for an optometrist and I thought, I am running out of excuses really. So I got an appointment, and a new prescription.

Last week, I tentatively tried them one night and WOW! I could read, I mean like all the words, first time around, without having to go back or second guess. I could even read the footnotes, which I had started to skip a long while ago, the font was too small. And I could read for hours without getting tired. Not being tired meant I wasn’t cranky either.

WHY had I waited so long??? It wasn’t even a huge investment given what I had gained, because I was able to re-use something I already had and wanted to hold on to, an old frame that I absolutely loved and that worked for me. Now I have new lenses in my favourite frame. It wasn’t until a few days later that I realised what I had been missing out on by not getting a new pair earlier. I finally fixed a favourite toy from childhood days because I could actually see what I was doing. I don’t need a magnifying glass for the super small print of some grocery packages anymore. And I can see and assess my holds when I go climbing, which is a good thing really. And to be honest, there are things I hadn’t seen without them.

Now I can see things clearly that I wasn’t able to see before. I have a different perspective on many things now.

What do you want to get a new and clearer perspective on? Do you know what you need to do to get that new perspective?