I was about that age when I got my glasses also and like @f3nix they just quickly became a part of my face and I have always worn them and been at peace with it. I was legally blind in High School without my glasses yet I played sports without them. Football was my sport of choice and I played basketball also. In football, I couldn't see the clock so I never knew what the score was or how much time was left in the game, it never really mattered though because I rarely came off the field and I played every play with the same intensity.

A miracle happened to me playing football that no one but me ever knew about or realized. We were playing at home on a cool Fall evening and a layer of fog had set in about 10-15 feet above the field. We could see the field lights and the lights on the scoreboard through the fog but in a strange diffused misty sort of way. We were a ground pounding run team that was losing pretty bad, so in desperation, we had to get out of our comfort zone and start throwing more passes. It was late in the game when my number was called, it was a trick play, tackle eligible, and I was going for a long pass from my left tackle position.

When the ball was snapped I headed straight down the field and there was no one in front of me, I glanced back and saw the ball leave the QB's hand just before he was buried under the rush of the defense, but the ball went up into the fog and disappeared. I just kept trucking down the field and the ball dropped out of the fog right into my waiting hands, perfectly timed! It was a beautiful 42-yard touchdown pass to an offensive lineman that no one but the official on the field even saw.

The fans in the stands were above the fog and they knew that we had scored but they didn't know how. The game was filmed but when the film was developed all that could be seen was white, as the field lights just reflected back to the camera off of the fog. The worst part was that we lost the game lol, so no one really even cared. Here I was, this basically blind football player catching a football that just dropped out of the fog right above my head after a perfect throw by our QB as he was being tackled, and no one ever knew that it happened except for me, the backfield judge and the QB, and the QB didn't even see the end of the play. That became then the miracle that was as if it never happened, when I got to school on Monday even the coaches didn't remember that last score, they thought that the newspaper reporter had gotten the score wrong lol. 🤔