About two years ago, I got glasses to correct my double vision when I read. Since I don't really read a lot of books in the classroom, I don't wear my glasses around, so people don't know that I wear glasses and have never seen me in them. My experiment for the McCandless project was to see just how people would react if I wore my glasses for a full day at school. Right when I walked in the school doors and saw my friends, they immediately asked me if I have always had glasses and that I looked so different. From other people that I saw in the hallways, but didn't talk to, stared for a while because they didn't think I was the same person. Also, when people commented on them, they asked right away if it was for this project. I feel like people knew why I was wearing them. During the experiment, I felt very awkward for many ways. One way was because I wasn't used to having glasses on so it felt weird to have the weight on my face throughout the day. It also felt uncomfortable because a lot of people were staring at me because I never really wear them to school. I wasn’t really surprised by their actions because I knew everybody would be asking me the questions I wrote above because people have never seen me with my glasses on. I was really surprised at my reaction because I thought that right away I would want to take them off and give up because of what people might say. I felt like they would get annoying, but they didn’t. I felt fine with them on. I got used to the feeling of having them on.
I feel like I am free not to conform because people didn’t treat me any different than they would any day. Based on the reactions from the people around me, I would feel comfortable if I would wear them any other day because nobody really reacted negatively to my glasses. I think that people should not care about what others think about them. That what others think shouldn't affect what they wear or what they do in life. This assignment made me feel like McCandless because of how he’s not afraid to go outside the box and not stick to the norm in life.
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