Lately I have been having a case of Internet, Website, and e-mail fatigue.
It just never ends! In a practice in the physical world, an office, we take generous amounts of time off. You wouldn’t see me for the better part of July and August. I would be gone all of December, and part of January. And in between, there would be a week here, a week there of someone filling in for me.
Not so, with the Web. The Web is every day! Sundays, holidays, Christmas, New Years. The e-mail blinking, and unresponded forum posts staring at me accusingly, and the passing dates of no new articles prodding feelings of guilt at me.
Hopefully this is not all too apparent though to you, from my response time and quality.
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Here is a quick story from a client, which while excessive, still is quite entertaining (and creative):
Michael A. has been working on his vision improvement for six months. He has been rather quiet, save the occasional list of Snellen and centimeter results e-mails. Almost no questions at all though. For a one-on-one case, he does have me wondering what is going on with him.
But, all of his results e-mails show steady, and promising improvement. He has come down from his initial -7.75 prescription to a -6.50 normalized, and reports 20/25 to 20/30 vision with those. Not bat at all, for six months of work.
So, I have no real reason to push for more communication.
Then out of the blue, a few days ago, he sends me his ‘project’. And I sit there for a bit, awed, at the creative mind of Michael.
He made a trophy case!
Think of what hunters do, with the heads of animals. Instead though, he has put every one of his previous glasses in an individual display case, with a framed reference of the prescription numbers, and a date.
The case has a mirror back, wooden sides, a little shelf, and he even spot lights them on his wall.
It’s … I had no words.
It’s brilliant!
I advocate keeping a log. That’s nice, but considering Michael’s way, I am rather boring. Of course, the scale of accomplishment, improving your vision, yourself, directly, does warrant a trophy. It does warrant a reminder, a statue, something triumphant.
If I had more reserves of time and energy, I would have to find some resource where you too could order trophy cases, to keep all of your old glasses.
Michael tells me that he has a whole hallway reserved for these, to build a timeline of his conquest over myopia.
This is what your myopia rehabilitation deserves!
But he wasn’t done, yet. All that time being quiet in e-mail, Michael was busy defining this project.
He bought all of his reduced prescriptions, ahead of time.
Now this isn’t something I would recommend. Though in all reality, there is nothing to be said against it.
Michael’s rationale is that he will use all of these glasses in the future. Not only does he save some money buying them all, but now he has tangible, physical reminders of all of his future milestones. He is in process of building a goal “case”, with all of the reduced prescriptions displayed proudly. This way he says, every day he sees not only what he already accomplished, but also what he still has to conquer.
He tells me that he waited for five months, evaluating the program and his own ability to put it in action. Once he realized how well it was working, he felt that it had to take some physical manifestation, something he could point to proudly, and something he could look at in terms of his future goals.
From all of this, there is something I am willing to predict about Michael’s myopia future, as I’m sure can you …
Enjoy some healthy eyesight!
