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[kyrielle]

Contacts. Glasses. I dunno, big deal.

I wore my glasses today, because I was really tired and my eyes felt dry when I woke up this morning, which I took as a bad sign for contacts. Also, I was running late, and glasses are faster to put on.

I have a coworker who uses contacts who swears I will feel more confident and more "myself" with contacts than with glasses. I surmise from this that she started wearing glasses when she was already an adult, or nearly so. How could I not feel "myself" and confident in glasses? They're part of me. I don't feel any less myself, or an less confident, without them (which I guess shoots down her second theory, that I'm hiding behind them - how she can mesh those two theories in her head I have no idea).

Umm. Maybe I'm just changing what I use to correct my vision, because I'm curious what it's like, and just marginally vain enough to enjoy people's perception of me as different due to the change? (Though - different yes - but I almost like my face better with glasses - it's a tossup, I guess - but familiarity tips the balance that way, at least.)

People are weird. And so are the people who say the world will look better. What? It looks like it always did. In focus when I have the contacts in (glasses on), out of focus the rest of the time. Unless I consciously think about them, I don't notice the curvature at the edge of the glasses, the blurring-points where they don't cover. They're there, but my eyes have long since learned to avoid them, unless I deliberately do otherwise.

So, why am I sticking with contacts? Well...a little of it is pride, to prove I can. A little of it is vanity of a sort - I don't feel any prettier or better, but I do feel like I stand out a bit less in some way, I guess.

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[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*points out that you also spent a hell of a lot of money investigating them!*

[pheon.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of your aunt Laura who was seriously annoyed with me when I got contacts. I got them because the eye doctor said I couldn't be corrected to 20/20 with glasses --- the lenses being set out from the eye made it difficult to correct 10+ diopters of myopia and a lot of astigmatism. But my sister had been trying --- not very successfully --- to switch to contacts for two years before that. [For vanity reasons primarily.] And still couldn't wear them all day. When I was wearing mine full time in a week or so, she was not pleased.

I was afraid for a while that you might have inherited her eyes. But apparently not.... :-)

[kyrielle]

Nah, looks like I got somewhere in the middle, which is cool. Though I wouldn't've been as disappointed as it sounds like she was, if they hadn't worked.

Though - I now have a huge one in the plus column for contact lenses, which I just now consciously noticed. No halos at night. Night-vision is improved even when halos would not have been present with glasses, vastly improved then, and driving at night is better.