Recounting how wearing glasses affects me and those closest to me

“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there,” is the dreaded comment I end up dishing out after bumping into people when I don’t wear my trademark glasses.

Okay, that above statement contains two lies. One, my vision is not that terrible to where I’m stumbling around into the masses on campus. And two, I don’t really believe that my glasses are my “trademark,” but if you insist they are then I won’t complain.

I remember clearly (pun intended) the first time I put on a pair of prescribed glasses. I was in second grade when I went from seeing blobs of green to a sharp view of what everyone else was seeing: trees. ­I chose a pair of blue-wired frame glasses thinking that they looked pretty good on me and was so excited to show them off to my classmates. From then on, my 10-plus year relationship with eyewear began.

For those that are stuck in the near-sighted category with me, we share that common annoyance of dealing with wearing glasses almost 24/7 ­every day, for 300 and some odd days.

There is a long list of frustrations from wearing glasses but I narrowed down a few that just keep occurring:

• The fact that I constantly need to readjust them forces me to pull a bunny twitch””a move involving my nose reframing my glasses without the use of my hands.

• Losing my glasses and finding them in the most ridiculously obvious places days later.

• Getting new ones, then regretting the choice when looking at myself at home and thinking, “I thought these were cute on me?”

• When others place their hand in front of my face and ask the always-laughable question, “How many fingers?”

• Taking them off to enjoy a night out on the town and having to ask friends what I missed when they laugh at something or someone outside of my field of vision.

Fear not, my fellow “blind bats,” there are a couple options to choose in how to handle your vision if you have reached your boiling point with glasses.

A couple of my friends opt for the contact lenses route, and that can be a whole other can of worms if you are uncomfortable with things being in your eye or don’t want the hassle in the upkeep of contact lenses.

For me, I have tried contacts in the past and for the time being, I just can’t seem to get back in the groove of wearing them.

Another option, the ever expensive laser eye surgery. I’m in college and broke, so that will have to wait until my future dream job is forcing me to figure out ways to splurge the ridiculous amount of money I will make.

And last but not least, the choice to walk around in a semi-blurry world and then whipping out your glasses to wear when needed. I particularly go for this alternative from time to time on the days when I don’t want to leave my glasses on all day long.

­On a more positive note, there are some pluses for being a “four eyes,” like when I’ve had a long night and don’t want to put makeup on the next morning; I just place them on and voilà, dark circles hidden.

Glasses can be fashionable but purposeful, unlike others that may wear fake “hipster” glasses because it’s an accessory on trend. In addition, you are no longer alone in wearing these obnoxious yet necessary spectacles because it seems that almost everyone has bad vision and dons the four-eye look or hides it really well.

Perhaps in the near future there will come a monumental event when technology boggles our minds again and a simple and accessible solution comes about in solving this glasses conundrum.

In the meantime, I’ll continue ignoring people that wave at me wildly from afar trying to say hello while I figure what my next pair of glasses should look like.