playing wallball (or handball whatever you wanna call it) with bottomless frames, get pegged in the face, glasses chip and dig into cheek and puncture my eye. Fun times...fun times
my eyes were once whipped by a previously bent branch, i put on my glasses in hopes of seeing a bit clearer since everything looked like pain, i then fell off the trampoline and almost broke my nose.
i had to wear double eye-patches for 2 days and apply some kind of shaman yogurts to my tender eyeballs and nose every 3 hours.
never since then have i bought glasses without protective foam on the nose-things
Both glasses and Lasik eye surgery are less of a haste than contacts and Lasik is less expensive in the long run. Inb4 I'm too big of a pussy to trust modern technology and I believe every dumb urban legend I hear.
I have no idea what you mean by 'less of a haste.' Did you mean 'less of a hassle'? Because no, glasses are not less of a hassle. Contacts do not have to be cleaned throughout the day. They take ten seconds to put in. They cannot fall of your face. You don't have to take them off during contact sports. They don't get in the way of laying your head down on its side. They don't get in the way during sex. And nowadays they even make contacts that are safe to sleep in.
I wear contacts instead of glasses because I don't have to worry about them falling off my face or damaging my face in any of the situations outlined (I do a lot of contact sports.)
Lasik surgery isn't available for everyone. There are many factors that can disqualify you from lasik, such as pupil size, thin corneas, etc. You also can't get it until you're 18, which according to the last round of stats I saw, half this website is under 18. It's also out of my price range even if it was available for me.
Well that's it right there, then. I don't know what eye doctor set you up to believe that you'd be used to them in a week, but he was terrible.
It definitely takes more than a week to learn to use contacts. It took me about two months to learn how to clean them properly, put them in properly, and stop 'feeling' them. However, given that my bad vision isn't going away any time soon, it was worth learning. Been wearing them for 6 years now. Ten seconds in the morning and ten seconds each night and my vision problems are basically gone (and I haven't actually tried the ones that you can apparently sleep in, I may have to do so because that sounds great.) It also definitely makes me look / feel more attractive, and since I do contact sports I absolutely had to find some way to ditch the glasses.
To each their own, I got no problem with people that wear glasses. Just pointing out that you were very misinformed if anyone lead you to believe that you can get used to contacts in a single week.
It wasn't like uncomfortable, it was more like being unable to function at all. I couldn't see anyting even after i had them in for 2 hours. I tried it, but for me it wasn't worth it in the end. I didn't (and still don't) hate my glasses that much to put myself through that. The only thing the eye doctor said was that some people are more prone to having problems with it, I was probably one of them. He said that after a week it should be atleast a little bit less painful and teary eyed than in the beginning, but it was the same.
Just to clarify, he never said that I would be used to them in a week (I don't recall saying that i expected to be used to them in a week, I stopped using them after a week because I couldn't be bothered. It was too much of a hassle so **** it)
When I was a kid, I had the most amazing moment of my life that no one saw.
It was the end of recess in elementary school, we were under this giant stone canopy thing that had a small basketball court in it.
For most of recess, I was kicking this ball against the wall.
While we were being called in, I kicked the ball and it hit the ceiling, then landed on the rim of the basketball hoop, and then INTO the basket.
No one saw. No one ******* saw how amazing it was.
I would rather them see me fail, than for them never see how glorious that moment was...
Reminds me of one time in middle school, I was on the volleyball team and one of my teammates set it into the back corner of the gym (outside the court), and I ran and bumped it over my head (swinging backwards over my head), and managed to get it over the net and got us a point.