April 25, 2004

• i never used to understand why my mom would get so frustrated when she couldn't see (she has a bad case of presbyopia)

  
  

  but then my own eyesight suddenly got worse in the past 2 weeks .  when i take off my contacts things look much fuzzier, and i've been finding it increasingly difficult to do things w/o my contacts in

  
  

  like today, my network cable was disconnected and it took me 20 whole minutes to figure out how the wires ran and what was connected to what, and another 10 minutes to fix it

  
  

  i almost drove myself crazy, running around this tiny space (my living room) that i thought i knew like the back of my hand, only to find it so alien when it was out of focused

  
  

  

  
  

  my few minutes of stress gave me a glimpse of how it must feel to be "handicapped"; feeling helpless and frusrated at failing to do things that used to require zero effort

  
  

  but isn't that what everyone goes through when they get old??

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