#take caution

you wish you could be 20% cooler

I’m someone that, if I end up spending a lot of money on something, I use it until it craps out, even if I hate it. About 4 years ago I went to a new eye doctor and they didn’t have their own “store” that I had to buy glasses from, so for the first time in my life I was free to take my prescription wherever I wanted. I started with those online places everyone raves about, but they didn’t take insurance and most of the frames come in a set size, so any one I really liked it was never the correct bridge or arm length. Anyway, I ended up at Target. They took my insurance and they had some nice cheap frames. Somehow I got snowed, they added stuff I didn’t even ask for, and it cost me more, even with insurance, than I had EVER paid at my old eye doctor. So when the glasses came in and the screws never stayed tight and I called them my “garbage” glasses that wouldn’t even stay on my face, I was determined to keep them the full 2 years until my next eye appt was due. 2 years turned into over 3 bc of covid. I couldn’t bend over without them dropping off onto the ground. A part of the frame was completely cracked in half. They were the worst. So bad. Never go to target optical. Total rip-off. But I got my use out of them. Anyway, my mom treated me, a 45 yr old woman, to new glasses from Costco about 3 months ago. They’re perfect. They fit great. They’re blue. And I lost them in the goddamn ocean yesterday. Fuck.

the pursuit of knowledge is the purest and darkest of pursuits. take caution, but tread deeply as that is the only way you shall survive in the screaming hell of thoughts