The Spectacle

One might need spectacles more often than one needs water. In circumstance of lack of water, you search for it, or, in the worst, end up purchasing a bottle of water at some unworthy price. Yet, without spectacles, you can’t even grasp a glass of water and launch it down to your mouth!

The art of wearing spectacles is a funny business. When you put them on, you become indifferent to them. Yet, when they aren’t there, you frustrate yourself to the extent that after half an hour, you find yourself holding a broken pair of spectacles with a couple of bruises on your feet.

I have this notorious habit of losing my spectacles to the clumsy stature of my room. One day it so happened that my glass-frame blended with the floor and ultimately ended up being a victim of a stampede.

Hence, these days, I prefer to gently place my glasses down on my bedside table, pick them up again to see, put them down, repeat the process till I have brushed my teeth, shut down my laptop, set my phone to charge, changed into my pyjamas, and forced myself to accept life the way it is.

My normal lifestyle can once-in-a-while excuse the need for spectacles. However, my school-life cannot. You see, this one day during my online mathematics class, I had subconsciously placed my spectacles at a place I wouldn’t remember should I search for it. And well, as you can imagine, my maths teacher gonged my name four times, when I was trying my justifiable best to weed out the ‘unmute’ button from my screen, at the same time holding my compass, who, apparently, found it the right moment to hit paralysis.

Ah! Such a plight, these things.

I ended up telling my teacher that I really wasn’t sleeping and that I had lost my spectacles, so I couldn’t see. The teacher didn’t seem to believe it though, for she asked me to show my construction work, which I wasn’t able to complete because my compass acquired a disease at the wrong moment. However, I told her that I tried drawing arcs, but they didn’t just quite turn out as they were supposed to.

She didn’t believe it this time either, and suggested me to ‘focus on class’ more.

I would ultimately be reassured to tell you, that I spotted those spectacles later that day on my bedside table.

 

-      -  Krisha Shastri