Ode to my sunglasses

My sunglasses are really big. They make my eyes look like insect eyes. I appear just like a giant fly wearing them. I love my sunglasses to be that big.

Behind my sunglasses I can hide. When I wear them it feels like there is a vail between me and the rest of the world. When I wear my sunglasses people can't tell what I'm looking at. I can stare at people and they won't notice.

When I wear my sunglasses I sometimes feel like a child who puts his hands in front of his eyes thinking that other people can't see him now. Sometimes I make myself believe that people can't see me when I wear my sunglasses - of course I know that they can see my body regardless. But they can't see my eyes and large parts of my face - that is why they can't recognize me.

In Spain, I once was interviewed on the street by a reporter of the local TV channel. I was wearing my sunglasses that day and he took me for a Spaniard until he noticed my accent. Usually, the Spanish noticed that I was a foreigner on first sight because of my blue eyes and blond hair.

Therefore, my sunglasses make me believe that I can be taken for somebody else. My sunglasses give me strength to do things I normally wouldn't dare to do - going to a park and lying in the sun wearing a bikini, walking through the city taking photos of the buildings I like, wearing my horse riding clothes on the metro, smiling at a good-looking stranger...

When I wear my sunglasses, I can put a curtain between the people who stare at me and myself. Only I can see through it. That way I'm able to say to myself that I don't care what they might think of me.
Therefore, my sunglasses are not a protection against the sun. They were too cheap to fulfill that task anyway. They are rather a protection against me feeling embarrassed. Plus, my friends say that I look really cool with them 8-)

Btw: I wore my sunglasses when I was sitting in a park writing the first draft of that story.