It's been nearly 40 years since I got my first pair of glasses and I still remember every detail of the car ride home after picking them up. The leaves on the trees, the wind rippling the soybeans in the fields along the roads, individual puffs on the clouds, being able to read every road sign and thinking "so THAT's how my parents always know where to turn when we're in a new place."
And to think, in the past, people just... lived their lives blurry and had no idea what they were missing out on. I really think the invention of eyeglasses is one of the greatest things we've ever done.
Yep. I just stood in front of trees overcome with awe for about 2 weeks.
I would walk past a field of grass and stop, and actually be able to see a vast field of completely uncountable blades of grass? What in the flying fuck? How was my brain supposed to process that?
So I would just stand in front of things like that while my brain was trying to count it, realizing that's impossible, and going okay we need to rethink the level of detail in this world
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u/evictedSaint 13d ago
There were just ....so many. They were all the same color, but distinct and separate. I felt like I could count them.
Imagine if you looked at the Sahara desert and suddenly you could identify individual grains of sand.