I See You, Do You See Me

Today I was walking and I really started to focus on my glasses. For those who have never worn glasses, I think the hardest thing to get used to is the fact that you can only see the world clearly through the lenses of your glasses, venture outside these boundaries, faces blur and inanimate objects instantly adopt an anthropomorphic quality…which can be amusing or devastatingly embarrassing. It’s just weird I suppose, and for an hour or so it takes some time to get used to it. You keep seeing the rims of the glasses.

All of this got me thinking…am I still seeing the rims now (now that I’m used it them)? I mean sure, if I want to see them and think about it I can…but the rest of the time I completely block it out. This makes me uneasy. What else in life have I so simply blocked out with little disregard? What happens to that message; that fire of electrical impulses sending the sight of these rims through my mind? Is it completely lost, irrelevant, and if so, how can I consciously then regain my awareness of them? This brings up the concept of lost energy…if these impulses are still being sent, how can I not be seeing them, how can they be ignored? Its like when you’re reading and someone is talking…are your eardrums not vibrating with the frequency of their voice? It would seem most logical, and frankly most probable that you eardrums are in fact, still vibrating, and the impulses are still being sent to your brain, so the ultimate question remains, what happens to all of this lost thought?



Recycling doesn’t begin at the curb with your aluminum and cardboard, it’s here in our minds.