Glasses
A Look into my "Blurry/Un-blurry" Brain
If you don’t remember me, “Hello!”
I want to share with you a strange, short piece I wrote this morning called “Glasses.”
Afterwards, I will reveal the prompt that led me to write it. So, stick around and learn the backstory.
Glasses
Did you know more than fifty percent of humans would not be able to drive cars if it were not for the advent of the glasses "technology?" Or perhaps it was not advented at all—but given. Given to us by the Gods. Or, God, if you are monotheistic. As was once said by the Greeks, Prometheus gave man fire. Maybe Glassesetheus gave glasses. Someone needs to advent an arthouse film that tells this story. Depicts life in ancient times through one person’s nearsighted eyes—blurry as F*&%#. The POV will jump back and forth. Fifty percent of the movie is from an outside omniscient perspective, maybe seen through Glassesetheus’ four divine eyes of flawless vision. The other fifty percent, showing through the blurry world of the protagonist. Now, That would win Oscars and Golden Globes and all kinds of French film fests, and maybe a couple Italian ones, too. The director/writer/cinematographer team all would have to be No Names. No Martin Scorseses or James Camerons allowed. We need a gatekeeper on this. Give a new person a chance for once! When Cameron announced, “I’m the King of the World!” did he actually realize the responsibility he was assuming? Megalomaniac much? But this movie I'm telling you about, it would go viral—very viral. People all over the world would post the living Glassesetheus out of it on their socials. Even on LinkedIn. For one, that’s like free advertising you can't pass up, when you are already on top of the world. It’s basically like the divine hand of Insta or Metabook, or whatever the next bigger thing is, trying to push you up the ladder to Heaven prematurely. It's like: “Time is now, go meet Glassesetheus.” But just think about all of those Insta stories. More than 50 percent blurred. It would change the world forever until it crumbled. Just think: Once upon a time in history, glasses unblurred the world in record numbers. Now, yet again, everyone is celebrating blurriness. A complete 360 in POV. It's back to the dark ages kinda stuff, IRL. As Buddha was said to have said a long time ago—this world advented impermanence permanently. It's everywhere. We only get so many stories to tell. Time's almost up. And we’re all just out there working our freaking tails off trying to get more likes and hearts and pay the bills. It's because deep down inside our own blood-beating heart, we all know: Those stories go away.
Backstory
This morning, I was loading up the old Telluride with sourdough. In and out of the house, back and forth. Dog watching through the glass door. My wife was about to head to the local Seaside Farmers Market to help earn some extra bread for our family (by selling bread).
A hobby gone mad. I’m not complaining.
If you are curious, check her scrumptiousness out on Insta: Flour+Fare. Share her story, quick.
You won’t find a single blurry post on there. Hers are as crisp as well-baked boule. Well, maybe the edges are blurred to be stylish.
Anyway, in the morning while outside, I like to remove my glasses and let the sunlight shine in, an age-old bio-hack that really works.
That’s when the light popped a thought into my head:
“How lucky am I, to live in the age of glasses.”
I thought about ancient times. And then I went inside to tell Tracy about it while grabbing a box of jam to pack up.
“Can you imagine if we didn’t have glasses technology, honey—more than 50% of people wouldn’t be able to drive cars?!”
About then, things started getting pretty serious in my head, getting really clear. I loaded the jam into the car and rushed back in.
“I think there is a movie that needs to be made where the film is shot through the eyes of a person in ancient times with blurry vision.”
She quickly said, “The whole thing!?”
Like many times in my life before it, I suddenly realized she was right about something else, and I said to her:
“Only half!”
The other half would be from some other outside perspective that could see perfectly clearly. (Yes, perfectly clearly, thank you.) That way there would be contrast. Contrast is really important in film and writing and CAT scans.
From there, I unleashed the dam.
And I’m glad I did.
I have been wanting to make fun of James Cameron for a long time.
