Skammentary: Envy is a dread foe, with self-pity amongst the many weapons in its arsenal.
"Everybody's better than I am,He's Dead, Jim | Project GLOWWORM
I think everybody's better than me,
And everybody's swell, I guess,
They're doing well, more of less,
And everybody's better than I am, I think.
"You know, to be king you don't need a castle.
To row back to shore can sure be a hassle…
"Why you walk around with your head low down?
The true king rules without a crown!
If your boat's afloat after the typhoon,
Row it safely back to the lagoon.
"And never the mind the green grass you won't mow,
Or what it is you have or don't to show,
Or what it is you can or can't afford,
The good are good without reward…
"You know, to be king you don't need a castle."
I had my annual appointment with the optometrist this morn. Normally, my eye exam falls on what seems to be the sunniest day of the year, but today I awoke to a pleasantly overcast sky. My eyes appear to be healthy & the prescription for my spectacles is effectively unchanged. I hadn't realized that I've had my present frames & lenses since 2010. Tempus fugit—time flies! My spectacles are thoroughly modern black plastic rectangles, owing to their Danish origin, appropriate for a hipster circa 2010 & superficially similar to the U.S. Armed Forces' contemporary Model 5A G.I. glasses. Though my spectacles hold only one lens—the left eye piece is not a prescription lens, owing to that eye's nearly 20/20 vision—I find that I now wear my spectacles almost all the time. The optometrist assures me that this is perfectly ordinary, as age makes it more & more cumbersome for the left eye to compensate for the right eye's shortsightedness.
I do not yet have the appropriate wardrobe to accompany wearing a monocle, even though my vision would support such an affection.
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