My Eyes

Do I look weird with glasses?

Well, It was not my choice to wear glasses tho, I wear it because I have weak eyesight since looong-looong time ago

So, lets Flashback to the 13 years ago

I remember It was a night when I asked my dad about the time while he was driving

“what time is it Dad?”

“You can see it by yourself. the clock is in car's dashboard”

"..."

and I was silent, I only saw random-red-light looked like they arranged something but I can’t see any number😕

What people see vs what I actually see
(edited by Picsart)

13 years ago, I was in 3^rd grade of Elementary school when I got my first pair of glasses. and my prescription keeps increasing by -1.00 dioper every time I visit the eye doctor or optical store. 

I don’t know if its normal or not. Because the only thing I know is it can not be done, so every night before bed or whenever I shower I basically at the mercy of the world. Yes, I cry sometimes😢

Now, My prescription is -8.25 either right or left eyes. So I have a lot of experience with eyes. But, I'll share only the funniest thing. Here, I want to share my experience of being bullied in elementary school, facing a bunch of funny-not too funny-frequently asked questions about glasses, and my almost-blind tragedy because of contact lens

First, my experience of being bullied in elementary school

Welcome to Indonesia, when discrimination happens to people who have a different religion, skin color, and also people with disabilities. And it also can happen to young kids, for example, me, when all of my classmates bully me for wearing glasses, every day.
Whoever read this story, please stop bullying habits to somebody has an issue with their ability and especially in this story, I want you to try to feel how myopic people experience their eyes error.

because....

I lost my self-confidence back then

And, I decided that I would wear that F-glasses only in front of my parents and will take it off when I'm in school. Eventually, I couldn't take the lesson well because I couldn't see the whiteboard clearly. but at that time, I Don't Care anymore, I was really really embarrassed to wear glasses.
I don't have any choice
So I just let it go till the lesson ended. However, over time this situation affected my Rank,
dropped from 3 to 8😔

Second, The never end and weird question

People love to ask “Are you myopic?” even though they saw me clearly wear minus glasses. And after that followed by “what power is it?”

Everybody was like to ask & to try my glasses on their face, and I reluctantly give mine and pretend to approve but actually, I didn’t get the point of this whole exercise

Person A

“Chale, can I try your glasses?”

“Oh okay, my power is about -8, so be careful”
I removed my glasses and gave to her

“Oh, God! I’m going to blind”

Person B

“Chal, Can I try your glasses?”

“Oh okay, my power is about -8, so be careful”
I removed my glasses and gave to her 

“Oh, God! You are blind!”

“Thanks, Can I just have my glasses back?”

Person C

*a girl is peeking over my glasses behind me*

“can you take off your glasses?”

“sure, what?”
I removed my glasses

“Focus on me, guess what number is this?”  She folded her fingers and put it at a distance

“I’m nearsightedness, not BLIND, okay?”

I've been there, Des !!!

Person D

“You’re so pretty without your glasses”
"...." (Happy)

Person D in another day
"Your eyes looked monolid without glasses, better if you wear it"
"...wait, what?..."

Not too mention that picking out new glasses is the hardest part. I’ve been trying all frame shape with different color, Red, White, Green, Transparent, Blue, Black, Brown, etc. It's hard to pick what shape and color will absolutely define me as a person.

The width of the frame should match the width of my face, at least people should be able to see my eyebrows above the frames or maybe half of them, preferably a little more than half.

Good Thing of wearing glasses is when people still think glasses make everybody look smarter. That’s why they assume that I am smart as their first impression 😎 But, Most of my friend labeled me as Nerdiness

There's also bad thing which always followed, that I can’t enjoy swim with non-prescription goggles, I'm afraid to play a basketball (I imagine that it will hit my glasses), also is not possible to me for wearing my favorite sunglasses without contact lens, and the most frequently happened is, I usually put my glasses everywhere, and I just can’t find it because I can’t see clearly. Everything 15 cm onward away from my face is blurry to me. But Thanks God, I have Dona as my roommate, she always helps me when I lost my glasses and start to touch everything around me randomly.

most frequently happened

and those are my reason why I started to think that I really need Contact lens

I went to Optik Internasional, ITC BSD, and tried contact lenses for the first time, I need to ensure by doing an eye test and a full consultation first. The consultation includes an eye health check, a discussion on lens types and suitability, wear and care to teach and an 'in-store trial' of my chosen lens, It's free

And here's my almost-blind tragedy because of contact lens

A few months later, I was damn careless, at that time I came home night, and the glass of my helmet was too dark so I needed to open its glass. and my eyes were contaminated with air, pollution (of a motor vehicle), my eyes turned red, sore, itchy and became blurry. And I think it just something that usually happened when eyes are exposed to pollution for a long time. However, when I tried to open the contact lenses, I saw a red line on my eyeball which I assumed my eyes was bleeding. I panicked and immediately went to the doctor. I was told that I almost made my eyes blind because of my contact lenses were hardened when exposed to cold air and my eyes stopped producing tears making it worse. after the doctor treated, within two days my eyes improved but I did not use contact lenses for 5 days so my eyes could rest

If you feel the same as mine, there are a couple different options you have

😎Don’t worry about what they say. 
They’ll get over it, and glasses will become a part of your everyday look, and people will forget you wear them.
I tried this, the best thing I can do is only ignore them. I understand sometimes people do bully because they don't know how else to react. and Thanks god a few years later, some of my friends started to wear a glasses too, and glasses became not-so-embarrassed thingy
😎Wear contacts lens.
If they’re making fun of you because you’re wearing glasses and they’re not used to seeing you in glasses, replace them with a contact lens. Unless you’re blind as a bat.
I've worn contact lens since 2013 (6 years ago), it was frustrating in the first month but I get used to it 

😎Get LASIK surgery and fix your eyes. 
Then you won’t have to play with glasses or contacts at all. it costs about 28 million with Femto method in Ciputra SMG eye clinics.
(source: here)

And I chose the first and the second options

For those who wondered why I'm not done surgery for my eyes? how can I do surgery if the minus still increasing day by day? I wonder when my eyesight will stop getting worse.

A lot of advice, that I heard about the possibility to slow down the advancement of nearsightedness and even reverse it. But My Dad never worried about how high the prescription would be when I grew up, he just allowed me to take soft lens if I felt shy when wearing a glasses, he said that I still have a chance to see than thousand blind people outside there, and I should be grateful for that chance. 

Cheers