I am extremely short sighted and have worn high powered glasses or contact lenses for most of my life. Over the last year or so, I have noticed my near vision has further deteriorated. It started innocently enough: price tags were sometimes fuzzy; reading labels in supermarkets was more difficult; a friend showed me a message on her iphone and I couldn’t make it out; menus in low light restaurants were a blurry mass; threading a student’s machine in a class took several goes; and so on.
I muddled along for a while but the crunch came when TWICE in less than a month, I nicked a hole in some handwork in misjudging the distance between my scissors and the surface of my quilt. Boo! So now I have embraced my middle age condition and have some new purple and chartreuse reading glasses. What a revelation! Vision is a beautiful thing.
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Welcome to reality:-)
Brenda: if it makes you feel better, I got glasses when I was 26. At 29 I got my first bifocals (contacts with readers), and by my early to mid 30s was in trifocals. Blind is me…
Oh well, c’est la vie!
Now I even need a magnifying glass to read small kanji in some textbooks.
The beautiful thing called vision is something I finally discovered at age 10, after years of sitting in the front row so I could squint at the blackboard. Now short-sightedness has been joined by astigmatism, which seems to be due to age-related degeneration of muscles. But vision is still a beautiful thing – more so now than ever!
These are cool! Love the soft roller effect, too!
I couldn’t wait so bought a few and they arrived today so guess what I am headed off to do? They are very cool. Thanks