An Asymmetrical Face Is the Norm

For those of you whose glasses are always crooked.
Perhaps it is not that your glasses are bent, but that your face is.

In my line of work, I have fitted glasses for countless people. The number might not just be in the hundreds.
As I fit glasses to a customer's face, it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a person with a perfectly symmetrical face.

Eye levels differ from left to right, as do the distances between them,
and the ears also differ in height, front-to-back position, and size.
The shape of the nose is different on each side, and while it may not have much to do with glasses, the jaw is also different on each side.

"My face is asymmetrical, you see."
Some customers say this as if they are apologizing. There is no need to feel sorry, but perhaps for that person, it is a complex of their own.

"Actually, everyone is like that."
When I say that, they say "Oh?" and their face brightens just a little. The moment they realize, "If everyone is like that, then I'm not strange," I wonder if I was able to help them set down one of the burdens they were carrying.

It seems that people with symmetrical faces are one in a million. And even then, it is not 100% symmetrical, but rather "almost symmetrical."
Academically speaking, it seems that 100% perfect symmetry is impossible.

The posture of a fetus before birth, the posture after birth, and one's dominant hand, chewing habits, and other lifestyle factors change the skeletal structure by the millimeter. Of course, there is also some degree of genetics involved.

"Almost symmetrical" might be like a trophy finally awarded to the limited few who have managed to clear all the precarious, tightrope-walking balances.

One in a million is rare enough that you can consider it virtually non-existent.

I live in Hiroshima Prefecture, and the population of Hiroshima City is about one million.
It is the probability of finding just one person if you searched all over Hiroshima City.
Since the population of Tokyo is said to be 14 million, does that mean you would find about 14 people if you searched all over Tokyo?

This is a personal preference, but I like asymmetrical things.
That applies not only to people's faces, but also to buildings, fashion, scenery, and food. I want the rice for my curry to be pushed to one side, not right in the middle.
I find interest in how things are broken. People are just right when they are a little off-balance.

I cannot be like Uncle Jam and Anpanman and say, "Then please go get a new face," so I fit glasses to asymmetrical faces.

The glasses might look crooked at first glance, but when they are fitted to a person's face, they become straight at plus-minus zero.
It is fine if crooked things mesh together in a way that makes them straight. That goes for everything.