How I Healed My Eyesight

Tell Me I Can’t and I’ll Prove You Wrong

So, we are back in the 90’s with wide-leg jeans, crop tops, Walkmans and Haddaway singing What is Love in the background… This was the time of my elementary school and high school.
It was the age of hip hop and everybody was trying to be cool. Being smart and having good grades weren’t really in. You can imagine how it felt like being a shy gray mouse with glasses. Not cool at all.
I was scared of talking in front of people, I didn’t want to be seen or heard and I really hated those glasses, because I believed they made me look nerdier if it was even possible.

When it was about to choose teammates, nobody wanted to have me in his team because those glasses meant trouble. What if you break them? Besides that, can you imagine a good snowball fight while wearing glasses?
Or any water activities? Running around freely just like the other kids? No way. Not only I didn’t have good eyesight, but I also always had to take good care of those glasses. I knew they were expensive and my parents couldn’t afford to buy me new ones if they broke.
And of course, I always had to sit in the first row in the classroom. Now this totally made no sense. What were those glasses for if not helping your eyes see perfectly? I could have sat in any row and see the tiniest script on the chalkboard. But no. First row. Always.

So my childhood was pretty much limited by those terrible glasses. I hated them! I remember going back to the eye specialist every summer and hoping for a miracle to free me from them. But I got a bit stronger lenses every year and the doctors told me my eyesight could never ever be improved or corrected. No hope.

Then in the last year of high school, a girl showed me a book See Without Glasses by Ralph J. MacFadyen and I was like: Yes, this is it! I started reading the book immediately and what I’ve learned was mind-blowing: The eyes have muscles just like your arms or heart, which can be trained. They just got lazy since the glasses have been doing all the work. That just made so much sense!
I got super motivated and started doing eye training and reading without glasses in daylight. I noticed a huge improvement within the period of 4 months and couldn’t wait to go back to the eye specialist for a check-up.
I simply told him I wouldn’t need glasses anymore. It was a badass feeling! But of course, he didn’t believe me and started doing all the eye tests. When he finished, he admitted that the glasses were not necessary anymore and granted that I was allowed to drive without them (it has been a restriction in my driver’s license).

You can’t imagine how happy I was! After so many years finally free! I just wished I would have known about it earlier and also all the other kids with glasses.

I’ve kept my good eyesight ever since and used to tell people about the possibility of improving it if they were open-minded.