Glasses.
I've been wearing glasses since I was seven. I am now twenty-two. When you wear something for so long, it becomes a part of who you are. No one knows me without my glasses, not even myself. In fact, seeing myself without glasses makes me really uncomfortable. My vision is awful and without my glasses, I live in a world of panic. So many times growing up I would fall asleep with my glasses on and when I woke up, they weren't anywhere to be found as I moved them around in my sleep. Those few minutes of not being able to find my glasses are pure panic and chaos. I don't enjoy it and as an adult now, I make more of an effort to put them on my bedside table before I drift off to sleep but old habits die hard and 7/10 times I fail at doing the previous task. I can remember my first pair of glasses. They were oval shaped and the metal frame was a navy blue. As I'm writing this, i'm picturing seven year old me getting her picture taken for school, smiling and looking so ...

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