Will be blind, but now I see

I always worried about this day. Now it has come. Well, it hasn't quite. But I can tell it's coming now.

Yesterday, after a routine checkup, the ophthalmologist or optometrist or whoever (I like optometrist better because it's easier to spell) told me I was slightly farsighted, more so in one eye than the other. She said I still had 20/20 vision and didn't need nerd goggles glasses, but she wrote me a prescription anyway in case I needed to get them during my time away at school. She said that if I did need glasses, it would be for reading and stuff only.

But wow. I had 20/15 vision until a few years ago. Soon, I might need glasses. "O, how the mighty have fallen," said my sister, who has worn glasses or contacts since the age of seven. More like, "O, how the young have aged." Well, I'm 19, but lots and lots of people my age wear glasses part-time or full-time, so I guess it would be okay. I'd have to get used to being a glasses-wearing person, I guess. But this is just mental preparation.

My eyes can't be that bad yet. If I hadn't gone to the optometrist or whatever yesterday, I never would have known that I was farsighted. I don't have trouble seeing anything. People still rely on me to read tiny print for them. Although I am a little worried, I'm okay for now. And I never wanted to be an astronaut anyway.

I enjoy reading MySpace bulletins. Yes, I lampoon them, but I read some of them. I like the insights they provide. Sometimes, people use them to anonymously say things they'd like to say to people but can't. (I just split an infinitive there. I'm finally realizing that it's okay.) Although I haven't lived as much as some of my friends who have done it, and even though some of the people I'm addressing will never read this, I do have a few things to say.

1. Are you sure that's what you want?
2. Thank you for understanding.
3. I'm glad you've found a place where you're happy.
4. I wish you would get along.
5. You don't know how much I've learned from you.
6. I'd be so happy if you did.
7. You could have at least shown some courtesy.
8. Can I use your advice on you?
9. She's not what you think.
10. I wish we could hang out more.
11. Thanks for giving me a chance.
12. I'm afraid you mean more to me than I mean to you.
13. Why don't you say something?
14. I wonder how things would have been.

(Also, I realize that I could say some of these to people's faces, but it's more fun this way.)

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