I may need to get glasses. I find myself squinting at the computer screen alot. My right eye is weaker than my left one, so I end up shutting it in order to read small print.
Last time I went to the eye doctor I was in college. It was mostly because of Tom Seal’s Old Testament Themes class. It was in Ward Lecture hall, which is a big arena type hall. Dr. Seals would put the answers to the test on the overhead screen and I just couldn’t read it. So I made an appointment to see the eye doctor.
The doctor said that I had a slight stigmatism, but it wasn’t bad enough to get glasses. It may have gotten worse since then, with my continued use of computers. My granny always told me “Don’t sit so close to the TV because it’ll make your eyes go bad.” I don’t know if I believed her or not. Is it the same way with computer screens? Or is just that I’m getting older and my eyesite is bound to fail. I’m the last member of my immediate family not to have to wear glasses or contacts.
So I am contemplating life with the hassle of contacts. I might dread that. I might break down and get lasik surgery.
Then again, I don’t know if I’ll need glasses or contacts. Glasses could turn me into Supernerd, as if I wasn’t your stereotypical computer geek already. I might get those Buddy Holly style glasses, if only to look like George McFly. Ha!
In elementary school there was this black girl who everyone picked on. She wore those coke-bottle thick glasses. These were the days before wide spread use of contacts and it wasn’t available or just not practical for a 2nd grader. None the less, most people made fun of her because she was different. She didn’t make all that good of grades and was held back at least once…maybe twice. Now I look back at it and think how cruel we were to that girl. I’m sure she might have had low self esteem because of it. She had a dedicated mother. I remember seeing her at school many times, helping out with the room mothers. Later on the girl must of have developed more self esteem and eventually everyone forgot about her situation and she ended up getting some friends and moving on. No one bothered her anymore.