When I was seven years old my brother came home with his first ever Harry Potter style glasses. I was fascinated by the fact that he needed spectacles to see the clarity that I saw, and I envied him for being able to see everything in a haze. He described his vision as “fuzzy and blurry" and for some reason, I thought that was the height of coolness. My wish at the ripe age of seven years old was to have vision bad enough that I needed to wear glasses. I was a fool, because now at the age of 20 I have been regretting that wish for 14 years, because a year after my brother got glasses, I did as well.
Sure, glasses can have their perks. They correct people's vision, and under the right circumstances they can make people look smarter and sexier. Unfortunately, the cons outweigh the pros.
1. Sex.
Having sex while wearing glasses is extremely difficult. If you leave them on you risk accidentally hurting your partner with the frames, and fogging up the lenses when things get hot and heavy. It's a nuisance to be wearing something on your face, yet at the same time it's difficult to see if you take them off. Luckily for people who are near sighted, it's not as big of an issue to take them off, but for far sighted folks not being able to see during sex may cause some potentially funny, or not funny, accidents.
2. Walking in the rain.
Eye-glasses and the rain do not mix well. One moment you're strolling across campus with perfect vision, and the next you're blinded by rain drops on your lenses. The only options are to walk with water blocking your vision or to remove your glasses and walk into anything and everything.
3. Going to the gym.
Working out with your glasses on is not so simple. It's hard to wipe the sweat off your face with something covering your face, and not to mention the difficulty of keeping the glasses on while running on the treadmill or doing jumping jacks. You could workout without your glasses, but then it'd be hard to see the television and to catch a glimpse of how many minutes the person next to you has completed on the elliptical trainer.
4. Going out.
Quite possibly the worst part about having glasses is going out. While there are contact lenses, sometimes it's uncomfortable or a hassle to put them in. Glasses just don't always go with your night outfit, and it definitely brings a different vibe to the frat party. Although, this one time I wore my glasses out (because I had pink eye) I got more attention than when I used my contacts.
5. Misplacing your glasses.
Obviously, you can't find your glasses if you're not wearing them, and it's hard to not look like Velma when you scramble in a frenzy to find them.
6. Name calling.
What is this, the 1950s? No one uses insults like “four eyes" anymore. If anything, the one good thing about wearing glasses is that you can sometimes pull off looking like a sexy librarian.
