I am blessed with vision.
So this is a fairly accurate representation of my world without glasses… well… not accurate…. it’s too sharp, actually, but I couldn’t get blur to give me quite the right effect, and you get the idea. Regardless, as bad as my vision is, it’s fully correctable, and that is a beautiful thing.
So, I wanted to squeeze in a run the other day, but I only had about an hour and a half before my next conference call for work. I do NOT run in my glasses as it becomes an exercise in trying to keep them from falling off and wiping off sweat while trying to run. I DO wear contacts, though. They work very well. However, the contacts I got as my new prescription this year are… difficult. They trap air beneath them unlike any contact I have ever worn in my life, and trapped air simply means “I’m gonna pop out the first time you blink.” So, putting these things in can take 30 seconds, or it can take 30 minutes.
I didn’t have the time.
I do, however, know my running path quite well, and am adept at picking out moving colors (there is one major street crossing), so I opted to just pluck off the glasses and run.
And it was nice. There may have been the usual crowd of people staring at the fat guy trotting by, but who could tell?!? Certainly not me.
It was kind of surreal, though… running through a sea of colors… but kind of relaxing too… at least until I brought the pavement directly into focus my coming right up to it! Turns out there are lots of opportunities to stumble in that miasmic sea of colors. Oddly, I didn’t fall until I was back on my on patio. You’d think I’d have had that patch memorized. Guess not.
So, next time… I’ll take the time to put in the contacts.
Good run though…
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