I’m writing this post because I just did something that I really want to remember and look back on. Today I managed to get a contact lens in my eye for the first time ever after A LOT of practicing.
While some people might think it’s stupid that I get so overly happy about just getting a tiny contact lens in my eye, because I feel like so many people wear contacts that it’s a pretty common thing, this is an enormous accomplishment for me. I have been trying to get contacts in my eyes for years, but I haven’t managed to do it on my own until today.
I have worn glasses since I was about 4 years old, and I’ve hated them ever since I got my first pair. I was picked on at school, people made fun of how I looked because I was the only one in my class with glasses in elementary school. And if you wanna talk about stereotypes, glasses are more or less always connected to nerds or the ones that are not so “popular” in the school society. And that’s always how I felt. I never felt pretty, I never felt like I was on the same level as the other kids because I was different just because of the glasses.
Glasses have as long as I can remember been one of my biggest insecurities. And just knowing that I have managed to get a contact lens in my eye and gotten it out again makes me so happy because that means that I soon will be able to wear contacts instead of glasses and that will make me feel so much better about how I look because I hate so much how my face looks with glasses.
the autumn journal 