JhieBeyondBorders - My Journey, Documenting My Dreams and My Reality.A Tiny Frame of Metal and Glass Carrying Entire Chapters of My Life
Some people carry jewelry.
Some carry lucky charms.
I carry a tiny frame of metal and glass that helps me see the world clearly.
If there is one personal belonging I hold most dear, it is not jewelry.
Not designer bags.
Not expensive shoes or gadgets.
It is my eyeglasses.
A tiny frame of metal and glass carrying entire chapters of my life.
I never realized how attached I was to them until one day I misplaced them before going to work. I remember standing still inside my room in Thailand, squinting at familiar things that suddenly looked distant and uncertain. The world was there, but softened. Blurred. Like life itself forgot to focus.
I panicked.
Not because the glasses were expensive. They were not.
But because without them, I lose access to the small details that quietly keep my life together.
I cannot read messages properly.
I cannot work comfortably.
I cannot recognize faces from afar.
Even crossing the street feels different, like walking inside a watercolor painting where edges dissolve into uncertainty.
For someone who spends her days reading reports, checking details, writing observations, replying to messages from family back home, and sometimes staring out at unfamiliar roads while living alone in another country, my glasses became more than an accessory.
They became survival.
I think people underestimate how emotional ordinary objects can become.
My eyeglasses have been with me during sleepless nights in factory audits, long drives from Bang Saen to work, quiet coffees alone in Bangkok cafés, airport waits, heartbreaks I never fully talked about, and moments of success I celebrated silently because adulthood teaches you that not every victory needs applause.
These glasses witnessed me becoming stronger.
They sat on my face while I cried in private.
While I smiled politely even when exhausted.
While I wrote stories nobody knew were partly autobiographical.
While I watched sunsets after the rain and convinced myself that life still had beautiful things waiting ahead.
Sometimes I laugh thinking how dependent I am on them.
I fall asleep wearing them while reading.
I clean them more carefully than some people handle relationships.
I know exactly where they are before I sleep because losing them even for ten minutes can turn me into a confused detective searching the house half-blind.
But maybe that is what happens when an object quietly accompanies you through every version of yourself.
People often ask about the most valuable thing they own, expecting answers wrapped in luxury.
Mine is simple.
A pair of eyeglasses.
Because they do not just help me see the world.
They helped me continue facing it.
And maybe that is why they matter so much to me.
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