> I wear glasses as well. I'm near-sighted, so things that are more than about five feet away start to get blurry. When I wear my glasses I can see everything clearly and it is wonderful. I don't wear contacts because I'm terribly squeamish about eyes and SHOVING GIANT PIECES OF PLASTIC DIRECTLY INTO THEM,

As weird as this sounds, you get used to that. I'm a former contact wearer (hard contacts, not those soft ones, which are for WUSSES who aren't nearsighted and severely astigmatic like me;)) and after the first week, that was no problem whatsoever.

What turned me off to contacts may have been the two scratched corneas. It could also have been that I look better in glasses. It's possible that I got tired of having to cry out every teeny weeny particle of dust that made its way into my eyes. And it could just have been that it's so much faster to slap glasses on in the morning.

> I like the fact that I can take my glasses off in under a second if I want to look at something up close, such as a computer or a book, and my glasses will never become lodged in my eye and cause a retinal infection or corneal hemorrhage or whatever that bad thing that always happens to contact-wearers' eyes is. Also, I like the way that glasses feel on my face.

Ohh, I hadn't even thought of that. When I had contacts, I would constantly reach to adjust my glasses, even though they weren't there.

> I think that if I ever had the option to get laser surgery I'd turn it down. I -like- wearing glasses.

My eye doctor told me once that I'd be a good candidate for laser surgery. I don't think I'd do it because, like you, I like my glasses, and also because I'd fear a mistake that could result in vision problems that glasses can't correct.

> -Eric "Clark Kent" Sleator
> Sun 28 Oct A.D. 2001

-Cynth"bespectacled and proud"ia