Making Contact

Things are looking up if only slightly. This is meant to be a bad joke/ comment on the general state of things: today I got contacts for the first time.

I have been slow going to this whole "pretend you don't need glasses game" because I was playing the "denial about needing glasses game" for far longer than most. I didn't get glasses until I was almost 18, and at that point in my life... well let's face it- I barely wore them. As my propensity for driving myself to and fro set in it became apparent that I really needed to wear them in order to see things at a distance. That's why I got them to begin with. While driving with my mother we played the "when can you see the street sign" game. I could only see them when we were less than 20 feet away from them- so basically as they were going by the car.

Anyhow, by the time I went to college I was wearing my glasses all the time. So that was 2003ish. Here we are almost 7 years later, and I am finally getting contacts. I guess it may seem weird that I am 25 and getting contacts for the first time, but really... I mean most people get glasses at some point in their early years of grade school. So let's say... 2nd grade. That puts you at 9th grade and getting contacts. I don't think that's so unbelievable. Is it?

I must say the first thing I am noticing about having contacts is being able to see everything. With glasses on you can see, but you lack all around vision. Where the lens stops- so does your vision. It never occurred to me that it worked that way since that's just the way it always was. I didn't know anything different. So far it's a little weird and my eyes feel tired already. Oh well. We'll see how I feel about it in a week.