30 Character Building Stages Of Getting Glasses For The First Time

    The denial, the anguish, the ultimate acceptance.

    1. Learning you will be getting them

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    2. Immediately being overwhelmed with visions of looking like this:

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    3. Questioning the doctor's authority - this guy doesn't know what he's saying!

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    4. After all, you've done fine without them all these years! JUST FINE.

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    5. Parents are less than sympathetic, of course

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    6. Could you bring yourself to try lenses?

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    7. Ok no, maybe glasses could look cool

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    8. Really cool. Maybe even...HIPSTER?!

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    9. You brace yourself to show them off for the first time

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    10. Friends are slightly taken aback

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    11. But hide it well

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    12. Family members positively piss themselves with glee

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    13. Some kind of "Alright there, Four-Eyes!" comment is inevitably thrown about

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    14. They'll all pay

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    15. You refuse to acknowledge that you need them all the time

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    16. But without them everyday tasks become mammoth obstacles

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    17. They slip down all the live-long day

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    18. Drinking any kind of hot beverage is near on impossible

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    19. On rainy days you just stumble around blindly

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    20. They're not the greatest aphrodisiacs

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    21. Even actually putting them on can be tricky

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    22. But it doesn't even matter because you can see SO DAMN CLEARLYYYYY!

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    23. Oh god. Too clearly. Why did no-one tell you this was what you looked like?!

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    24. Everything is so...HD

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    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

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    26. And you get to look intellectual for job interviews

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    27. Not to mention whipping them off to really stress a point

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    28. You can definitely embrace these bad boys

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    29. You can make them your thing

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    30. Add a quick look of contempt and....nailed it.

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