Many of us have been here at one point. You are sitting in
class, squinting and straining your eyes to see the board. You might even have
asked your teacher if you could sit closer to the front of the classroom to
see. After a while, you probably admitted to yourself that you might need to go
to the eye doctor and get a pair of glasses.
Picking out glasses was always something of an arduous task.
You probably wanted a fun, thick-rimmed frame or a colored frame, and your
parents probably picked out a more conservative, round, wire frame (or even
wire framed aviator glasses if you grew up in the 80s and early 90s!). The end
result of your trip to the eye doctor was that you were petrified to go to
school and wear your glasses in front of the other kids. Unless you were
seriously blind, you probably avoided wearing them at all costs.
Surprisingly enough, the stigma around wearing glasses has
changed over the past few years. For the most part, lenses have become more
stylish and have even turned out to be a great fashion accessory. Children who
are in grade school, however, will still encounter those “bullies” who will
make fun of them for having to wear glasses. That is exactly what four-year-old
Noah Fisher was afraid of when he got his first pair of glasses.
Noah kept telling his parents that he didn’t want to wear
his glasses because “everyone will laugh at him.” His parents were saddened
about this, so they set out to show Noah that glasses are actually pretty cool.
They set up a Facebook page and urged people to send in pictures of them
wearing glasses to show Noah that lots of people from all over the world wear
glasses. If you haven’t heard about this yet, check out the “Glasses
for Noah” Facebook page.
The response was incredible! Within a matter of weeks, “Glasses
for Noah” went viral and people from all over the world were sending in
pictures and videos of themselves, their family and friends, famous actors,
superheroes (and even their pets) wearing glasses. Today, the page is just shy
of 90,000 “Likes” with countless numbers of photos still rolling in.
We here at Site for Sore Eyes Berkeley would also like
to reaffirm that glasses are cool.
People even wear glasses – that have no prescription – as a fashion accessory
(because they are clearly jealous of the rest of us who have to wear glasses). Visit
Site for Sore Eyes Berkeley if you are still wary about getting your first pair
of glasses, and the staff of optometrists and opticians will show you that in
the end, they are actually pretty great.
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