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Oct. 17th, 2007
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Oct. 17th, 2007 10:21 amYesterday I was thinking about how I have been explicitly told to judge people by their shoes, teeth, and nails. Somehow I'd never examined that idea before, or doubted it, or questioned it. I don't think I like it, at least not as an absolute. Sure, you can glean little bits of information about someone by looking at their shoes or their teeth or their nails, but judging seems wrong.
Though come to think of it, maybe the explicit part has been the specification of shoes and teeth and nails. I'm not 100% sure that *judging* was made explicit.
I hate culture where shoes matter beyond the issue of how easy they are to walk in.
Though come to think of it, maybe the explicit part has been the specification of shoes and teeth and nails. I'm not 100% sure that *judging* was made explicit.
I hate culture where shoes matter beyond the issue of how easy they are to walk in.
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Oct. 17th, 2007 10:54 amYesterday I recognized that I have guilt about the idea of wearing contact lenses, specifically disposable ones (which are really the best choice at this point--I've tried a few kinds of non-disposables over the years). I have guilt at the idea that they (and the cleaning solutions) get manufactured and shipped (and worn) and then thrown away when it's perfectly possible to wear glasses instead. So I have been for the past few years. But I really prefer to have contacts around--I like the way my eyes look, and glasses hide them. I'm not horribly vain but sometimes I'm horribly self-conscious, and I'm less self-conscious in contacts.
This weird guilt pops up only with certain things, and I'm not sure exactly what the pattern is. I think it's related to consumerism and environmentalism, but there are probably life changes I could make that would make a much bigger difference than not wearing contact lenses. (For example, I don't feel this same level of guilt about forgetting to bring reusable shopping bags to the supermarket rather than packing my groceries in disposable plastic bags, and I have no self-consciousness about using reusable bags. And most of the time I forget to bring reusable bags.) It's not really a rational thing.
I think this is a long-winded way of convincing myself that I need to stop obsessively focusing on costs (financial and otherwise) and just get contact lenses again. I think.
This weird guilt pops up only with certain things, and I'm not sure exactly what the pattern is. I think it's related to consumerism and environmentalism, but there are probably life changes I could make that would make a much bigger difference than not wearing contact lenses. (For example, I don't feel this same level of guilt about forgetting to bring reusable shopping bags to the supermarket rather than packing my groceries in disposable plastic bags, and I have no self-consciousness about using reusable bags. And most of the time I forget to bring reusable bags.) It's not really a rational thing.
I think this is a long-winded way of convincing myself that I need to stop obsessively focusing on costs (financial and otherwise) and just get contact lenses again. I think.