Hello and welcome back, archers. I do hope that you are all rested and ready for the year ahead. I managed myself an extra few days before I begin in earnest 🙂. And straight out of the fog of Xmas and New Year indulgences, I was only yesterday at my first ever Archery Ireland National Indoor Championships, or as they like to say, Open. A perfect opportunity to see how different they do things and to get some much-needed practice in to kickstart the year. I did not do as great as I expected but learnt a lot. I’m not as terrible as I expected, and I also seriously need to get glasses, and soon. At twenty yards, the target is a bit fuzzy-fuzzy, and I have no clue where, if at all, my arrow lands on said target. This caused some obvious problems for myself in the first half of the shoot, but in the second half, I did try using a pair of my brother’s old glasses to see if that would help 🙂, and it did indeed. So, obviously, I must get an eye test post-haste and get my own glasses, so I might actually see the arrows and the target.
Even so, it was too little, too late, but the obvious improvement was enough for me to finally admit to myself that I do need glasses if I wish to be fruitful in my archery adventure and other endeavours. It should not be so hard to admit to oneself, I know, and I cannot explain it, but here we are. I am seeing fuzzy-fuzzy at twenty yards, and I suspect once I have my glasses that I will most likely use them beyond archery more and more, and knowing this, well, something dies a little and wounds the perception of self, and I reprimand myself for so completely ignoring the passage of time like some kinda mentally ill Peter Pan wannabe. I laugh at it regardless 🙂, as my new four-eye persona is on the way in this New Year. Take caution, for I will see more than before 🙂, and I will blah, blah, blah 🙂 🙂
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