[ TT ] You did n't realize just how blind you were until you went in and got prescription glasses ... Now you can see the leaves in the trees , the pebbles on the ground , and that your dog is actually a tiny dragon .

Okay its almost done. Sitting in the waiting room, 20 minutes away from having to never hear my wife tell me that I need to go to the eye doctor again. For the past 10 months, its been the itchy rash on my arm that would go away if I just took care of it properly, instead of `` deal with it.'' 
 
 I go through the motions with the Doctor and take them as seriously as I can. As seriously as I can for a person who has already been waiting 30 minutes too long. I'm told to sit in the waiting room for another 30 minutes while they get me a pair of temporary prescription glasses until the ones that I `` randomly chose off the wall'' arrive to my house. 
 
 I put them on.....and....its different. The world around me grinds to a halt. Sounds are now silent. Touch is now obsolete. Speech is, for a moment, unheard of. I can see. 
 
 I can see things that I did n't know existed. Did you know that the green bunches on trees are actually individual green shapes? Did you know that coloration on a wooden desk was actually lines drawn into the wood? Did you know that things definitely begin and end -- - not just form into another thing? Because I now know this... all at once. 
 
 Embarrassed to ask if what I'm seeing is all real, I smile silently. Of course, everyone around me has been seeing things like this their entire life. Have n't they? The constant distraction from the new world around me and trying to decipher what is normal and what is not is almost too much. So I remain silent. I keep a constant smile. I try to remain a slightly more impressed version of my normal self. 
 
 But I know that I am not my normal self. I know that something has changed. Is it just the gift of perfect eyesight for the first time in 18 years? Or is it something more? Its absurd to think, I know. But I've never heard people talk about these type of sights. I mean, is that really.....no.....no, it could n't be a....wait.....could it?
