I decided to get 'No Touch' PRK done to correct my vision. I woke up still feeling a little intoxicated and dazed from drinking at the pub last night, I sleepily stumbled out of bed without bothering to find my glasses and went to the washroom. As I stood in front the mirror I looked at my blurred reflection and realized this scenario will be a thing of the past after a week. I would stand in front of the same mirror in the same washroom yet one thing will be different. I would be able to see myself clearly.
I relished in the thought that there was a time limit to this experience of having a blurred reality, so I went about my morning without wearing my glasses. There was left over temaki zushi from dinner last night so I decided to have sushi for breakfast. As I was about to eat I had an urge to watch some television as I somehow acquired a long time ago the habit of enjoying some television or internet as I ate. Then realized I wouldn't be able to see anyways, so instead I engrossed myself in what I could see. I noticed the individual grains of glossy sushi rice, to the contrast of its white on the dark green nori. The veins that ran though the tuna slices to the brown discoloration of the avocado by oxidation. There was detail in this perspective I had come to trust and understand in the last eight years. As if stuck in a bubble of blur and I only had less than an arms length of clarity to live by. I turned my head and looked out the window, my yard was a mix of greens and the sky was a puddle of blue and grey. As if my mind was oblivious to the outside world.
I remember the day I got my first pair of glasses. I was sitting in biology class and was taking notes from the overhead projector when I asked the teacher if he could focus it a bit more because his writing appeared blurred. He adjusted it and asked if it was better, I squinted my eyes and said 'no'. The other students in the class was assuring him that it was clear enough. That's when I realized it wasn't the projector at all, it was me. The same day I told my mom I needed to get my eyes checked so she took me to the optometrist and behold, I did indeed need glasses. By the time it was made the sun had fallen and it was night. As we drove back home I remember looking up at the night sky with my new sight and realized that I had forgotten how truly majestic the moon and stars were.
Within these eight years I had gone through five pairs of glasses, countless contact lenses and thousands of dollars to replace them. Let alone the discomfort and nuisance I felt just to be able to see clearly. It made sense for me to save up enough to get this procedure done as they also honour a lifetime re-treatment warranty in case your eyesight does go bad after the operation. At this point, there is no looking back, by tomorrow I would be in the clinic and they will be prepared to vaporize a layer of my eyes. My mind is filled with a vision. A vision of clarity of what I must do with my life.
They say seeing is believing and I can't wait to attest to that.
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