I have developed a wrinkle in the retina of my left eye. Oddly, it seems to have made my overall vision in that eye better, I just have a blurry band I sometimes have to angle around. It took me probably around a month to realize that I can see well with it without glasses (yet somehow also with the glasses, I don’t remember the prescription, but it was fairly significant). Now I have one eye that’s good for distance and one that’s good for close up. But my vision in both eyes is a bit impaired especially in darkness because of visual static, which there’s nothing to do about.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"