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Series: Women who don’t let themselves be dazzled
I was sitting in a café the other day, the first warm rays of sunshine on my skin. I leaned back, watched the people around me – and then I noticed it:
Women with big sunglasses everywhere. In deep black, shimmering gold, eye-catching pink. Some were nervously playing with their straws, others kept glancing at their cell phones as if they wanted to hide behind the screen.
And I asked myself: is it really just the sun that we are protecting ourselves from? Or perhaps also from stares, from questions, from moments when we feel vulnerable?
I know that. Putting on these glasses and feeling safer for a moment. Gain some distance from the world. But at some point you have to take them off – and look yourself in the mirror.
What is it that you are hiding behind your glasses? And how would it feel to simply take them off?
