Myopia is my forte.

That's because I have lived with it for 53 years of my life.

That's also because it kept changing its intensity in my eyes both ways, from worse to better as well as from better to worse, in my different eyes during my journey from my childhood to my adulthood, on its own!

That's also because at age 53, one fine morning it vanished into thin air in one single second!

That's also because I didn't let it vanish like that on its own without telling me its whole story before saying good-bye to me.

I caught hold of it. My body (not yet I!) learned ways to get rid of it as well as call it back at will!

My body had sided with me against my myopia.

As if I had developed an affair with my body.

Every time it swung in or out of its myopia, it invited me to have a date with itself so that I was able to study what it was doing when it was going in into its myopia, and what it was doing when it was coming out of its myopia.

Body is always more intelligent than mind.

But we, on earth, work with our minds.

I am my mind.

I kept trying to learn from my body what exactly it was doing whenever it was performing the feat it had learned to perform accidentally one fine morning, in one single second!

I was dating my body but I didn't know its language; nor did it know, mine!

And as the child learns its first language from its mother, so did I.

I made mistakes on the way, exactly like the child speaks wrong language in the beginning.

But the mother always keeps her cool.

My body also kept its patience in teaching me the language, I never had known.

I kept playing with my myopia through my body!

I would increase it at times so that my vision went blurred to its maximum - I guess, it must have been to the tune of -20 diopter.

And not only myopia; at others, I would turn it into hyperopia or presbyopia (both are same, but for the age difference - in presbyopia, the lens goes hard too!).

Still at other times, I would play with complicating my myopia or hyperopia by adding astigmatism to either of them.

My body had learned a great language, which it was finding difficult to teach to my mind!

It took me two long years to learn this language in all its subtleties from my body, and today I know about myopia as well as other errors of refractive index, more than authentic ophthalmology does.

Technically everyone knows what ophthalmology tells about myopia.

When the eyes focus on close-up objects

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