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Personal Narrative: Getting My Glasses

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Glasses Getting my glasses changed my life forever. Befor I got glasses I had perfect vision and nothing seemed to ever be able to change that. One day in fifth grade I woke up to find I couldn 't see anything but blurs but it wasn 't all that bad. My vision kept degrading to the point I couldn 't see anything even whilst squinting. It was terrifying. My glasses needed nature has caused me pain and hardship. I have many a scars on my skin from the fact that I just can 't see anything without my glasses. Scars on scars, many scares. But glasses aren 't all that bad, before I had glasses I was the all around guy who did everything. Now people see me as a nerd, and I 'm ok with that I can 't remember a world that I didn 't have glasses. My

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