When I was little, my mother thought I had muscular dystrophy because I couldn’t squat, sit and run like the other kids.
It didn’t help that I was duck footed (thanks, Dad) and waddled around, hips swaying from side to side led by wayward outward pointing toes.
A few years later, in the first grade, it was also apparent that I couldn’t see. I’ve donned a pair of spectacles – or contact lenses – since then to perfect my less than perfect minus 10 prescription.
Those are just a few of the traits that would have made me easy sabre tooth cat prey if these were Paleolithic times.
Can you imagine: while my father and brothers were out hunting woolly mammoth and my mother was busy harvesting berries, I would have blindly wandered off into the blurry distance and straight into the fangs of any number of eager carnivores.
As far as survival of the fittest goes, I would be dead meat.
Recently – and to my vain horror – my opthamologist told me that my eyes are not happy with the amount of time they spend trapped under anaerobic hydrogel material and that I need to wear my glasses more often. I hate wearing glasses.
For one, I try to mask every indication that I would not be here today if it were not for modern science keeping me and my progeny from going the way of the Dodo.
Secondly, glasses are a pain. They fog, they slip, they mess with your depth perception.
The worst thing about glasses: they’re ugly. I know countless of people wear glasses, including everyone in my family and Hubby, but I have never warmed to the idea of wearing 5-inch thick coke bottles over my otherwise attractive eyes.
But health is health. So I’ve decided to go for it and toss the contact lenses for a while. Lucky for me, I stumbled upon these supremely awesome spectacles from Paul Smith:
Aren’t these just a vision of beauty?
They’re so lightweight it’s like not even wearing glasses at all. Plus, the funky blue color means I can shorten my makeup routine and go without my usual blue shadow.
Best of all, they can handle a heavyweight prescription like mine.
{These are the high index lenses if you can believe it}
They also come in a light gunmetal-ish grey if you’re not so adventurous and a metallic red if you’re bolder than I am. Find them here.
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