(This photo reminds me of the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I don’t know. Don’t ask me to explain the strange ruminations of my mind. However, if you would go ahead and read this post with the iconic Space Odyssey music playing in your head, I’d really appreciate. OK, back to your regularly scheduled programming.)

As illustrated here before, I have horrible eye sight. Horrible. Blind as a bat. A bat without the power of echolocation. Lost.

I’ve been wearing contacts since my junior year of high school. But, now and then, one cannot use one’s little plastic bubbles of vision. (For instance, when one has recently blinded oneself with jalapeno juices.) And in those moments, a blinded, batty girl has to instead use glasses. Spectacles. Or, I suppose a monocle would do also. (If you’re OK with favoring one eye over the other that is.)

For the past four years, I have relied on the same pair of glasses. They have worked with moderate success. As my eyes seem determined to worsen with age, their prescription has been null and void for some time. But, I procrastinated waited for the exact right pair to come along before buying new ones.

And at last, I have found them.

Warby Parker glasses.

Warby Parker is a glasses company that not only produces the fine spectacles you see above (plus a multitude of other styles and colors), they also are dedicated to giving back to the world.

For every pair of glasses they sell, they donate another pair to those in need. According to their site, to date they have donated over 85,000 pairs of glasses to the staggering amount of people who cannot see clearly (estimated to be about one billion people worldwide).

As someone who has experienced firsthand the astonishment one feels at seeing the leaves clearly defined on a tree for the first time as opposed to just seeing a big, green blob hovering before you, I cannot express how important corrected vision is.

So, not only did I get some sweet specs, I also felt like I was giving back to the world a little bit. And what could be better than that?

(Are you still imagining the Space Odyssey theme song? OK, good.)

So, of course, I can’t very well finish off this post without the obligatory goofy picture of yours truly wearing said glasses.

And so, without further ado:

For the record, this is is not a solicited or paid review. Nor is it sponsored by anyone but me. The Warby Parker people have no idea I exist outside of their customer database. I just love their product and their humanitarian work.

Oh, and in case anyone is curious, this particular style of glasses is Japhy in Revolver Black Crystal. OK, over and out!