Ray-Ban Aviator Green

Remember the movie Top Gun of the eighties. I had joined the Indian Air Force and we had just finished training. While Tom Cruise and his style, some of us did pick up with ease, these glasses were a WOW. While the girls in the neighbourhood fell for Tom Cruise, we boys fell for the Ray-Ban Aviator Green Glasses – and not for Charlotte-Kelly McGillis (the heroine). In spite of all her efforts, to us, the Glasses were the show. The Ray-Ban was indeed very precious, likened to having earned the Wings of a Pilot. A trophy or a medal of sorts. Only after that we took notice that these glasses adorned MJ and Elvis Presley too. I really wish you go through its Wikipedia page.

Some of you are getting impatient, “it’s an old story, why now ?”. The story is fresh in my mind now, because this darling of all sun glasses, which has been evading my hands all these years, for whatever reason big or small, has now become my prized possession. I feel awesome. Time for nostalgia. Remembering how much it was to hold it, wear it, you’re ON.

We were all Boys

All had the same voice

Girls were as scarce

Sighted like in Mars

Outed once a month

Movie hour till tenth

All in youthful fun

Came then, the Top Gun

Mavericks, we were

Ours, Life wasn’t too fair

With Tom we came together

For Gals? No, Boys of a feather

Buy one, envy the other

Share it, become a brother

Amongst us we fought like Cruise

Ray-Ban Glasses bought us truce

Flaunt it while on streets

Thinking, Girls will fall at feet

Though nothing of that happened

It filled our days, never saddened

Even dreams were looking better

Wearing on nights, didn’t matter

We styled, mimed, vied at him

Harried tricks to look like Tom.