The most annoying thing about wearing glasses...

[deird_lj]

...is when you're watching a sad movie, and just when the music is getting all dramatic, and you've got a lump in your throat, and everything's so SAD...

...and that's when you notice that you can't see. Because your glasses are getting fogged up by tears. And suddenly you have to choose between watching through blurry non-glasses vision, watching through fogged up glass, or sitting down less than a metre from the television.

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

LOL! Agreed.

[ikona-rakasha.livejournal.com]

Gnaw, so what do you choose?

[taiba.livejournal.com]

Well, I chose eye surgery :-p

[ikona-rakasha.livejournal.com]

It will be fun to see what happens when I start weraing my glasses all the time!

[deird1]

I generally end up holding my glasses an inch from my nose, and trying to peer through them without fogging them up. :)

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wear glasses, and I don't ever have this problem :|

[deird1]

Ah, but how often do you cry at movies? ;)

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair point.

[gg-83.livejournal.com]

I actually have not had that problem, which is nice, because I'm certain it would be be massively annoying. My own eyesight is so bad that my eyes would have to be about a decimeter from the screen in order for it to be clear. Yes, I checked with my computer screen. :)

My biggest problem with glasses is when I'm walking outside in the winter with a scarf on, and the scarf sort of channels my warm breath back to my face, and it fogs up my glasses completely. (Hello, moving blobs that are probably cars! Please don't run me over!)

[deird1]

I've never had that one. Benefits of a hot climate...

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Omigod, the scarf thing!! That actually happens to me like every time I wear one in winter. Or even try to like shrug my coat up over my face or something. It's so ridiculous.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

You know, I have that problem most when I'm wearing sunglasses. Though in that case it's usually not about something on tv.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

For me, it's tough competition between that and biking in the rain. But, honestly? It messes up "The Body" for me every time. :'(

[deird1]

*nods* I have to watch The Body with frequent pauses...

[riccadonna.livejournal.com]

That must have been a damn good sad story!

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Contact lenses are great. Just sayin'.
:-)

[carlos-v-b.livejournal.com]

Oh agreed. And considering that the wetter your eyes the happier your contact lenses are, crying is beneficial to contact lens use!

[deird1]

True, but unfortunately I can't wear them. My eyes are too dry - I had to put in eye drops twice a day for the brief period I was using them, and my eyes still dried out...

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

I've never tried them cause I hate putting stuff in my eyes.

Also I actually look better with glasses on.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

I think everybody does at first. When I first got my contacts, the optician showed me how to put them in and take them out a few times, and it was difficult but not too bad.

Then they let me take them home, and told me to wear them for just half an hour on day one, an hour on day two, two hours on day three and so on until I could have them in all day. (I'll leave it to you to work out how many days in total that took...)

So I'm at home, by myself, and I put them in. Tricky, but they're in. I wear them for 30 minutes, and try to take them out.

Which is utterly impossible

I have to stick my finger in my eye and peel a piece of plastic off my eyeball?!? It's not so much o.O as >.< I think it took me at least another 30 minutes to get the damned things out, and at one point I felt like going back to the optician and asking them to do it for me...

Now, however, I'm so used to it I can put them in or take them out in a couple of seconds, without thinking about it. And contacts mean:

Peripheral vision!
The ability to wear sunglasses!
The ability to go from a cold place to a hot place and still see!
The ability to cry when watching teary movies! (Not that I do this much.)
The ability to look at something off to the side without moving my entire head!
The ability to walk through the pouring rain and still see!
No red marks on the bridge of my nose or behind my ears!
The ability to wear comedy masks or pull a stocking over my face! (Not that I do this either. But I could!)


Also I actually look better with glasses on.

I have no way of knowing if this is true.

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

The ability to wear comedy masks or pull a stocking over my face! (Not that I do this either. But I could!)

This reason is just made of win.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had one of my friends go through the whole process, like at first they were always falling out or irritating her eye or whatever but now it's mostly fine. I just...blek. I dunno. I might try it eventually, but for now not so much.

I have no way of knowing if this is true.

Stop fishing for pics, you ain't getting em. :D

[taiba.livejournal.com]

Yeah, contacts were the reason I went for eye surgery. I *loved* the freedom, but didn't love the price. I figured that, if I was to wear them for the next 15 years, it'd be cheaper to go for laser.

[taiba.livejournal.com]

i had insecurity about how I'd look without glasses, having worn them since I was 16. They can be helpful when masking things like dark circles, but meh. I've since come to terms with looking how I do without them on :-)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Haha, omigod, hiding dark circles is actually exactly what I use them for. Idk why but I've had like the biggest purpley dark circles ever since I was like 10. So when I take my glasses off I look kinda like a zombie. >.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

...or wiping your glasses off? Heh.

Can't say I've had my glasses fog up while crying - oh, and of course I wear glasses, I'm a nerd - I just kinda cry and wipe with a tissue and it's good.