People who've worn glasses since an early age because they need them to see also keep them on in a way that shows a sane acceptance of the eyeglasses as part of the image they project. and an appreciation of the images the eyeglasses let them see!
And then there are people like me who associate glasses with getting older because our eyesight was perfect until we turned forty-five and suddenly Walgreen's was no longer developing film clearly and the mimeograph machine at school was making blurred copies. (You can tell how long ago I turned forty-five.)
We are the idiots who whip off our glasses every time a camera comes near.
We are the fools who memorized Dorothy Parker's verse, "Men don't make passes/At girls who wear glasses" and still remember those lines even when we're forgetting so many other things.
I am the fool who wrote this poem:
He took off his glasses, I thought, to appear
More handsome to me, but now I fear
He took off his glasses to see me less clear.
The foolish part of this is the concept that people look better without their glasses. I adore My Best Friend in Fifth Grade who, when she sees a camera coming, puts ON her glasses. She knows she looks better with them on.
Now I'm just keeping mine on--all the time, even for photos.
And I'm writing verses like this (to the tune of "Sixteen Going On Seventeen")
I am
sixty-nine going on seventy, my eyesight's getting weak.
Let's
raise eyeglasses
To no
more classes
We'd
rather sing than speak.
And I've been taking pictures of raised glasses every chance I get.
So...let's raise our glasses to eyeglasses...and then let's see!