Day 79 ~ Blurry

That is how I see it all these days. Literally. When I was seven years old, an eye exam revealed that I was slightly far sighted and the doctor prescribed glasses for reading and writing. For two decades I followed his orders. After college, I limited its use to computers, although I could see perfectly fine without them. The first time I actually needed them was at age 38, when learning how to write Chinese characters. The strokes were just too small to do it without glasses in the not-well-lit classrooms of my community college. But it wasn't until age 45 that I suffered the real decline: losing my perfect far vision. I understand tissues lose flexibility over time and lenses can no longer accommodate, I have heard it for a long time. However, I don't think it is so much age related, but more the result of the many hours I've spent in front of a computer in the past three years. Throughout them I have steadily lost both far and close vision, and particularly so in the past six months. And it is a loss that I mourn daily. If I could change one thing about my physical make-up, that'd be it.