The “new glasses headache” never fails to surprise me. The feeling of staring through lenses so clear that my head hurts…it’s a feeling I suppose I like to forget about, so whenever I get new glasses, I wander around the next day utterly confused by why my head is hurting so much? I used to get headaches all the time, but I get them less as I get older. Usually I just the “I didn’t sleep enough” or “I slept too much” (it’s a fine line) headaches. True headaches have become so infrequent for me that when I was sick sometime last year, the pounding headache was almost worse than the fever. Moving on from headaches…
As I was remembering this new glasses feeling, I was thinking about how sometimes our lives are similar. We can grow blind to something obviously wrong in our lives. We fail to see the issues in something – maybe it’s a friendship that was more hurtful than helpful, maybe it was a bad choice that seemed so good at the time.
When our eyes are finally opened to the fact that something is wrong, it hurts. We are looking at the world, our choices, with news eyes, new lenses. And it can hurt at first. It’s hard to understand why a good thing would hurt. But it does.
But in time, the feeling fades. We realize how glad we are that we chose to put on that new perspective, how much better it is in the long run.
Sometimes temporary pain can mean a lifetime of gain.
