Respect your eyes and clean your contacts for crying out loud. There was a day when you actually got your contacts the optometrist would give you the basic run-down of how to care for those semi-gelatinous discs. The first rule was always wash your hands. The second as always clean your contacts and soak them overnight. The third was never, ever fall asleep with your contacts on. You sleep eight or ten hours with your contacts on and you could be heading for a massive eye infection. No fun.
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If you wear contacts, you have certainly been warned of the two don’t. The first is never fall asleep with your contact on and the second is always clean them at night when you take them out. Falling asleep with your contacts on is a sure recipe for an eye infection. Failure to clean your contacts is a guaranteed case of red eyes and possible infection, not to mention it reduces the lifespan of your contacts.
Presbyopia is a mystery. What causes this degenerative condition is relatively unknown. Is it a degeneration of the rods in the eyes? A hardening of the cornea? There is no general consensus. The sum total of what most optometrists believe is causing presbyopia is, well, age. Simply put, age causes the farsighted blurring of fine print.
There is no doubt about it: reading glasses are a pain. They are an obstacle that must be overcome. How exactly does one overcome one’s reading glasses you may be asking? With a set of lenses — not lenses for your specs, but lenses for your eyes. A pair of contacts may be just the ticket you need to hop on board the youth train. After all, there are few items, short of a cane or walker, that belie a persons age more than a pair of reading glasses perched at the end of the nose.
Seasons pass, the days wind down, and the years accumulate. Time stops for no man. It is inevitable and we march on towards our fate always somehow three steps ahead of ourselves. The moment is never enough as we are constantly striving to plan, pressure and cajole a brighter future for ourselves. It seems one of the tenants of Zen Buddhism may have it right when it claims now is all we ever have.
