Fuzzy groups

As you may know, I'm short sighted (and as I have to clarify this each time someone asks, that's where you can't see well at distance). I wasn't always this way. I used to have perfect eyesight up until my A-Levels. It gradually got worse and worse, up to the point where I'm pretty much wearing them all the time. I know it's sometimes difficult to imagine the lack of something you have, but I'll try and explain it anyway. When I take my glasses off, everything gets blurry around the edges. The further away something is the fuzzier it gets. After a certain distaince it's trying to look through fogged up glass on a cold day.

This has however allowed me to carry out an interesting experiment. I used to despise people in general. They just got in the way. I was in high school, and almost everyone was a dick so I can be forgiven for creating such thought's...probably. It was so much easier to categorise people as them and me. It was even easier with a visual aide. I have walked through a crowded street, hundreds, maybe thousands of people in front of me. I took my glasses off and they lost all of their distinguishing features. Everyone was that little less individual, a little less human and therefore less significant. I didn't have to care and therefore their damning opinions didn't mean a thing, for they were a faceless mob. I could now see as I thought. The perfect complement to my philosohpy. However, this has changed. Sure you still have your occasional dick, but people are individuals. Unfortunately, this means that I'll need to get a new prescription for my glasses so I can see them in this manner, and it's been around 9 years since I last got my eyes checked. This could be an expensive way to live out my metaphor.