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In the optician's shop: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

There are mirrors everywhere--luring customers inside, glass walls are windows and the literary representation of an eye. Hundreds, maybe thousands of glasses are on display.

Each person has a different lens of perceiving the world around them.

They each have different curves and tinted colors, finely tuned to disturb our perception of the world. People with blue tinted glasses, for instance, cannot differentiate certain colors and are blind to specific shades of blue. However, some are color blind and need artificially tinted glasses to distinguish wave frequencies. More people with "bad eyesight" need lenses to realign the light that enters their eyes.

Oz believed people in Emerald City needed color lenses to see a charming city, something Mr. Baum made clear he disapproved. I used to favor modernism and realism over the victorian age. I still do, but mostly on the grounds of disagreeing with 18th century female representation.
But ABBA sings "I believe in angels, something good in everything I see." Fairytale tinted glasses are sparkled with pixie dust. Well, if I don't have a choice to live without a pair--I feel like only God would--why not choose the one that makes people most happy? Romanticism is not necessarily idealism. In most cases, there is a good reason to let myself enjoy.

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