I am a contact lens wearer, without my contacts or glasses I am severely impaired. There have been several occasions when I have gotten out of bed in the middle of the night still in a dreamy sleep-like state and walked directly into a wall or tripped over the snoring dog causing mild injury to myself, the dog and possibly the wall. This generally happens because of the mixture of said dream-like state and lack of proper correctional eye gear. Most of the time I sleep with my contacts still in to deter these middle-of-the-night confusions or injury and yes, I know how bad it is for my eyes, but the truth is that most people (whether they admit it or not) will continuously wear their contacts for an absurd amount of time until one has no choice but to put in a new pair. A striking thought occurred to me as I was recently changing out my old pair of contact lenses for a fresh pair. When I placed the new lenses in my eyes everything was dramatically brighter, sharper, and clearer than it had been before and I began to see a resemblance in this "change" of contact lenses and my life.
The old pair of contacts had been in my eyes for some time and I'm sure when I originally put them in everything was bright, shiny and new-looking, but after some time things began to dull a little, lose their luster and their brightness and because this process happened so minimally over time, I did not take notice. Finally, I was aggravated by them, they felt uncomfortable, constricting and well, old. A change had to be made. So, I placed the new contacts in my eyes and marveled at the clarity that this change brought forth. I hadn't noticed the gradual degradation and corruption of my sight because it was happening on such a small scale every day. All I had needed was a change of view. So I think the optometrists are right when they say we need to change out our contacts often and on a regular basis and I think we should apply the same advice to our lives. We may not even realize that things have lost their luster, we just keep on motoring through every day, while our views of life dim, shift, and become blurry. Only when we make a change can the luster be restored and the clarity return. So as much as we lobby against change, in the long run we know it is what is healthy for us, and we know that everything will be better on the other side of it.
I vow to keep my prescription up-to-date and make changes when needed!
The old pair of contacts had been in my eyes for some time and I'm sure when I originally put them in everything was bright, shiny and new-looking, but after some time things began to dull a little, lose their luster and their brightness and because this process happened so minimally over time, I did not take notice. Finally, I was aggravated by them, they felt uncomfortable, constricting and well, old. A change had to be made. So, I placed the new contacts in my eyes and marveled at the clarity that this change brought forth. I hadn't noticed the gradual degradation and corruption of my sight because it was happening on such a small scale every day. All I had needed was a change of view. So I think the optometrists are right when they say we need to change out our contacts often and on a regular basis and I think we should apply the same advice to our lives. We may not even realize that things have lost their luster, we just keep on motoring through every day, while our views of life dim, shift, and become blurry. Only when we make a change can the luster be restored and the clarity return. So as much as we lobby against change, in the long run we know it is what is healthy for us, and we know that everything will be better on the other side of it.
I vow to keep my prescription up-to-date and make changes when needed!
