In the corner of the room, right in front of you, a pair of glasses sits there on the counter, beside a thick, half read book with a delicate wooden bookmark within its pages. The bookmark was gifted to you a couple years back on your thirtieth birthday, by your youngest niece when she was only thirteen years old. The glasses themselves were not ones that you would let your children toy around with – in fact, they were quite luxurious with their golden decors on the earpiece. You gently pick them up, they are light in weight – the best feature of what a Titanium frame can offer – they feel smooth and delicate among your fingertips. You unfold them gently, then let the nose pads rest gently on top of your nasal bone. A simple procedure repeated every day, but you still cannot help but keep getting fascinated by the instant which the whole world suddenly becomes sharper and clearer than ever.
Imagine a pair of non-prescription glasses. Now picture a formal social occasion. It might be a dance, a conference, an interview, an important event that happens only once in a lifetime - costly, but definitely worth - the people you are about to meet may dictate the course of the rest of your life. Right now, before you, lies the choice of whether not to wear that pair of glasses. Your choice is a personal statement that will dictate the first impression that you pass onto others. Will it make you look weaker? Will it make you look wiser?
Imagine a person who cannot see. Now a pair of sunglasses. Though these two might seem contradictive to each other, but you must be used to the common stereotypical figures that possess both. There are reasons to why blind people wear sunglasses – some for more social acceptance, while the majority wear them to prevent light from entering the eye. The logic is quite ironic, that a blind person’s disability to process light prevents their pupils from contracting, thus making exposure to light extremely painful. The shadow cast from a pair of sunglasses protects them from pain, while also deprives their last bit of capability towards vision.
Frankenstein wore glasses the night he created the monster. He looked down, eyes wide open in disbelief: “What have I just done?” Through his intense vision the thin borders of his glasses felt particularly vivid; the frame surrounding his view and the light filtered within suddenly feel thick, irritating, burdensome. The image of the monster, moulded by the light refracted through the lenses suddenly seems bizarre, its beautiful features only created more horrid contrasts with one another. The most vivid deviation, however, was his feelings towards the monster before and after the its completion. “What was it that deceived me? What shrouded my mind with bias and misdirection? Why is my view so narrow, seeing my own creation so drastically different, in so short of a time?”
Take the idea of glasses, now combine it with some modern elements. You see now, on that counter, a device with futuristic shape, line and material. You hold it in your hands, it feels smooth, compact but not too weighty – it’s not a solid metal box after all. You take a deep breath, when you feel that you’re are ready to enter another reality, you place the device – a headset, that is – slowly onto your head. Entering sight, are spectacular worlds of wonderous features too real for the eye to segregate from reality. You would hate to leave, knowing that the wonders you’re witnessing can never be replicated in the world outside. You want to reach your hands forward, as now your eyes are certain that everything you see are as real as if they’re inches away from your grasp. Your hands stopped in mid air. Why did you hesitate?
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