Buzz·Posted on Apr 11, 201430 Character Building Stages Of Getting Glasses For The First TimeThe denial, the anguish, the ultimate acceptance.by Ekin KarasinBuzzFeed ContributorLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Learning you will be getting them Via giphy.com 2. Immediately being overwhelmed with visions of looking like this: Via giphy.com 3. Questioning the doctor's authority - this guy doesn't know what he's saying! Via giphy.com 4. After all, you've done fine without them all these years! JUST FINE. Via giphy.com 5. Parents are less than sympathetic, of course Via giphy.com 6. Could you bring yourself to try lenses? Via giphy.com 7. Ok no, maybe glasses could look cool Via giphy 8. Really cool. Maybe even...HIPSTER?! Via giphy.com 9. You brace yourself to show them off for the first time Via giphy.com 10. Friends are slightly taken aback Via giphy 11. But hide it well Via giphy.com 12. Family members positively piss themselves with glee Via giphy 13. Some kind of "Alright there, Four-Eyes!" comment is inevitably thrown about Via giphy.com 14. They'll all pay Via giphy.com 15. You refuse to acknowledge that you need them all the time Via giphy.com 16. But without them everyday tasks become mammoth obstacles Via giphy.com 17. They slip down all the live-long day Via giphy.com 18. Drinking any kind of hot beverage is near on impossible Via giphy.com 19. On rainy days you just stumble around blindly Via giphy 20. They're not the greatest aphrodisiacs Via giphy.com 21. Even actually putting them on can be tricky Via giphy.com 22. But it doesn't even matter because you can see SO DAMN CLEARLYYYYY! Via giphy.com 23. Oh god. Too clearly. Why did no-one tell you this was what you looked like?! Via giphy 24. Everything is so...HD Via giphy.com 25. Although there's a small hope - when your prescription goes up again you can go back to looking like a pretty hazy blur for a month Via giphy.com 26. And you get to look intellectual for job interviews Via giphy.com 27. Not to mention whipping them off to really stress a point Via giphy.com 28. You can definitely embrace these bad boys Via giphy.com 29. You can make them your thing Via giphy.com 30. Add a quick look of contempt and....nailed it. Via giphy.com