The most annoying thing about wearing glasses...

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...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.

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[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.