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I must have been six or seven years old when I got this liking to glasses/coolers or eye gear to be precisely complete. The first time I ever laid eyes on one, I wanted to own one, it was a 2 Rupee yellow pair of shades.

I used to walk to my mom's office after school through a market place, it was more of a vegetable market but one of those shops had these glasses, they had like 5-6 colors. The shop was about half a kilometer away from my Mom's office and all I could make up during the walk was, I was losing my eye sight.

Even today my Mom remembers that very day to the color of the shades and especially my claim that my eye sight got better with that yellow eye gear.

Well that was just the start because as early as the times when there was just one ophthalmologist in my home town I started frequenting eye hospitals. I went on to visit ophthalmologists as often as I could, often changing doctors and hoping at some point of time my eye sight would degrade by at least 0.25 diopters.

Though the perennial yellow tint of my eyes helped fuel my visits to the doctor, my eye sight was near perfect all the while and I ended up with bottles of eye drops and pills.

And then there was this wrestling craze that swept my school. World wrestling federation or WWF as it was known at that time exposed me to funkier shades like the one Bret 'the hit man' hart sported.
Sadly neither my pocket money nor my travel expenses were enough to support me with sun glasses. I always ended up with some cheap replica which lasted for a few days or hurt my eyes.

Some where between college and school I found a doctor who found my eyesight below perfect and I had my first genuine pair of glasses. I did not use it for the fear that it might hurt my chances of entry to the defence forces.

After college when I began to work I could at last walk in to an optical and order a pair of zero power glasses with 'anti glare'.
I should have been alone, because one of my friends bargained with the optician and I ended up with a cheaper, eye hurting, crooked pair of glasses. I went back to my original pair of glasses which by then were old fashioned.

The first thing that I ever asked my sister who went to work on an overseas software project last year was a pair of shades.

too many cop movies ? I dont konw but right now the craze is lingering on Aviator model sun glasses.

I actually found the courage to purchase a genuine pair a few months ago though my state at that time was 'inebriated' to say the least.

what next? I dont know.. may be the 'coolers' that my sister is sending me soon.