The Magic Glasses

A friend introduced me to a man she said was a very wise person, and then left us alone. I was not impressed by the stranger. For one thing, he had an attitude. (I can always tell when someone has an attitude.) Besides, I didn’t like the way his ears stuck out.

As we shook hands, he said, “Why are you crying?”

“Me? I’m not crying,” I said.

“Not on the outside, but on the inside you are crying.”

My heart suddenly opened and I spoke without thinking. “I’m sad because I can’t stop judging people. It hurts.”

The VWP reached into his pocket and drew out a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. He handed them to me and gestured for me to put them on. When I did, I was dazzled by his beauty. Gorgeous light seemed to be pouring from his chest. I was speechless. He had seemed so ordinary before. Now he was the very embodiment of beauty.

He told me the glasses were mine to use, but that after a certain number of hours they would vanish. Then he walked away.

Having those glasses changed me. Everyone I looked at was radiantly beautiful. It was like I was falling in love with everyone. I still could not speak, so awe-struck was I by the beauteous light that glowed from each person I saw.

Then, suddenly, the glasses disappeared. People were back to normal. There again in plain view were all their faults and unpleasant traits and actions. I was shocked. I wanted those glasses back, for now my judgment brought me actual pain. I was sad for a long time. Then one day I met the VWP again.

“I wish you had never given me those glasses!” I raged. “They just covered up what people are really like.”

“You are wrong, my friend,” he said. “You were given a great gift, for the glasses showed you the actual truth of each person. Far from embellishing, they revealed the hidden gem within each which is the soul.”

Now I am working to train myself to look at people as if I have the glasses on.

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