The world swivels as I move my eyes. Things go from fuzzy to clear to fuzzy. Today I was the lucky recipient of a pair of bifocals.
It may cure my difficulty in reading—the decision came after misreading the zero for a nine when writing a check—but the fish bowl effect means relearning how to focus far and near. Will my life improve with the new glasses? Dizziness and the constant shifts in focus make me skeptical at this point, but everyone says “You’ll get used to it.”
To think that Ben Franklin was the Father of Bifocals, and after nearly two hundred years I am wearing his invention! I move my head back and forth and watch the glass table in front of me wavers. The world has definitely become much more fluid.
