Glasses

So I got a cool thought last night while attempting to fall asleep. Picture a kid that is just learning how to walk and they are given glasses with a strong prescription. They stumble around for a really long time, get called names, and feel like a failure. Their Erikson stage isn't met for the better, but after several years they start to be able to see out of these glasses. It isn't always clear, but it works. I mean they have been wearing them since they can remember, so why take them off. I mean who would even think of doing such a thing. This goes on through school. Teachers get frustrated because the child struggles so much with learning. Parents get frustrated because the kid still trips over his own feet. Life goes on till the child drops out of school. Living on the streets is a rough place to be, but it feels better than being under people's gaze all the time. Then a random dude stops by one day and starts talking to this now adult. The conversation isn't smooth, but the dude says he'll be back. This continues for over a year. One day the dude asks if the adult has ever taken off his glasses. The adult shakes and says no, I wouldn't be able to see. The dude tells him that he will guide him around he just wants to see what will happen. When they take the glasses off its still blurry, but in a different way. It's scary, so the adult tells the dude that maybe its a little different, but give me back my glasses. They continue their relationship for several years. Every once in a while the dude gets the adult to take off the glasses for a while. As trust builds this happens more and more for longer periods of time. The adult still grasps for his glasses, but he's getting less scared without them. As life goes on, he never throws his glasses away, but he does start to keep them in his back pocket. The dude smiles at him everytime he sees him.
Random, but interesting. I don't know how much metaphorical stuff is stuck in their, but I am learning about poverty and having more patience and understanding. This is just something that came to me that I thought I would share.