The mystery of the magical glasses

The entire life I have been looking through a pair of spectacles sometime magical and sometime rosy, but mind you the search has been continuous to get that 6/6 eye sight. All fellow bespectacled people out there would know what I am talking about. My first pair of glasses were prescribed to me as early as at the age of five. But I became a regular bespectacled personality by the time I was 12. For as long as I can remember I used to complain about a headache and this did not go down even when I started wearing my magical glasses regularly. The condition was under control though for sometime, then again the axis will change and yet another new pair had to be ordered. So came my first pair of photo chromatic glasses. This was a major breakthrough. It would really soothe the light around me especially during harsh summer months and would find me squinting less.

One good thing happened by regularly viewing through the magical glasses that I was cured of astigmatism. I could not believe the great fortune as now I could use soft lenses and did not have to squint through the spectacles with skewed vision as that's more or less what happens when one suffers from astigmatism in lay man's language. Not to mention the added fashion quotient of sun glasses could now be mine by wearing soft lenses. But my happiness was short lived. The grueling working hours in advertising did not help the cause, as after 12 hours at a stretch the eyes will go dry and the nagging headache will come back to haunt me. Moreover like my brother I could never get used to the discomfort of having a pair of foreign body in side my eyes. It really would feel strange.

So I was back to square one trying to find that one pair of frame first which would sit the prettiest on my nose. Then came the glasses to fit the frame. This was another world all together. There was regular lenses, photochromatic lenses, high index lenses, transition lenses, anti-glare lenses, and what not. The list is endless. During this mammoth hunting for that perfect pair I just gave in and settled for the photochromatic lenses serve both the purpose of regular vision and rosy vision in the sunlight. But down in my heart I missed my fashion statement a lot. I guessed Bono is to be blamed for that, wearing dark glasses always made you mysterious as proven by many others but Bono somehow made it indispensable. It is more than a fashion statement, it is the way I want to see the world... rosy and magical I suppose. So since yesterday I have been feeling quite like Alice not to forget the fact I am not humming those famous lines anymore "I still haven't found what I am looking for".