An interesting moment occurred yesterday as I was purchasing some new glasses at the mall. For months my glasses have been in complete shambles as for those who’ve seen me on a regular basis have noticed the steady degradation that my trusty frames have been put through. Sadly, I can’t take any pictures of them but I can still describe how badly they look. First off, the side screws had managed to fall out and I never bothered to replace them. I used staples to hold the ends together in replacement of the missing screws, so the front would constantly slide down my nose every couple of seconds. It’s become almost a bad habit as I still move my new glasses up even though they haven’t moved at all. Secondly, the middle completely broke in half while I was at work one night. To fix that problem I used duck tape to hold the two pieces together. All together it was probably the worst fix-up job for a pair of glasses that i’ve ever seen.
It went on like this forever as I was so ashamed to have people see me and my deformed glasses. I couldn’t even look a person in the eye, as I would just have this sick feeling of what they could be thinking once they saw the hack-job that was done on these. I had to get new glasses, which was something I had been putting off for a long time because as most people would know that a new pair of glasses can take a healthy chunk out of your wallet. After laying down almost $230 for new frames and lenses yesterday, I had my new and improved glasses in tow and was ready to put them on. An interesting moment happened once I put them on though, it was like this wave of change came over me and I somehow felt different. I’m sure most people have noticed how scattered the blog has been on my part, and just uneasiness i’ve been feeling – basically just feeling down. Putting on the new glasses though, I felt like a new man. I just felt genuinely happy about everything.
Of course everything I just typed has to go along with some song right? Well, it does in fact. As I was driving to work with newly minted frames and newfound happiness intact, I had this new track “Beautiful Life” off the upcoming Chromophobia record from architect!/producer/musician/composer Gui Boratto playing in my car. I first saw it mentioned somewhere as a favorite track of many bloggers currently, so I wanted to check it out for myself.
I must say that it was the perfect song to be listening to at that very moment as I was driving to work. Running at almost 8 and a half minutes, it’s amazing how great this song is despite being so simplistic in it’s function as an electronic song. It’s just a really easy track to love and it simply gives off this life-affirming feeling to feed off of. I just couldn’t ask for anything more at that very moment. A beautiful life indeed.
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You know, maybe you could’ve posted that song you posted today by The Frames – Falling Slowly (…apart)
haha,
i had noticed your glasses, and i actually thought to myself that they were kinda cute! They had a certain “i dont give a crap what you think about my glasses” look to them. I’m sure your new ones look great too though, congrats on the new you =)