Steve Vanderbrook's first viewing of
a 3d movie changed his life. “The movie looks real!” he said to
his parents. For the rest of the day, he refused to remove his
glasses. His parents tried to explain to him that the real world
looked real too, especially if he took of his glasses so it wouldn't
have that awkward red/blue flicker as the right and left eyes
struggled to make what each saw work. Steve wouldn't hear of it.
He was a kid in the 80s, so it was
the cool thing to do. In high school, it was his thing, and because
he had a personal style and swagger that existed without the glasses,
people accepted it, and some even imitated it. In college, they
thought he was being ironic, and it worked for him there as well.
They only time it ever was an issue was at work, but as he did IT and
did it well, the office was inclined to forgive his eccentricity.
When asked why, he would give the same answer, and people would
assume it was a metaphor that embodied a personal philosophy rather
than an actual literal belief.
“Life is better in 3D,” he would
say. “It looks like everything is really there.”
- Originally mailed to P. Mathis from Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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