The Random Thoughts Thread

[Lenny]

Have you tried lenses, then?

And what are you? Short or long?

[Asmiley]

I'm nearsighted.

I'd like to go with contacts but I can't stand touching my eyes. I can't even open them underwater like we're sposed to be able to. I always failed that part of swim class.

[Lenny]

Don't worry, I'm exactly the same.

Whenever I see someone messing with a contact lense, or even just showing how they lift up the eylid to put it in, my eyes start to itch like mad.

[HoopyFrood]

I wear glasses as well...I wouldn't be surprised if most people who frequent the Chron do, as we're all pretty much avid readers (and I know that's certainly the reason why I wear them...I'm shortsighted as well, because of years of staring at a page! However...I regret nothing!)

[Lenny]

I've always passed that off as a myth - my friends tell me that I'm only blind because I read too much and spend every free minute of the day staring at a computer screen.

I wonder if there are any longsighted readers?

[Asmiley]

Well when i was little I was exactly the opposite I was farsighted adn needed glasses to read.*shrugs*

[Lenny]

It seems strange that people can change from longsighted to shortsighted like that.

I guess it must be something to do with adolescence, maybe. Until I was about 14 I had perfect 20/20 vision. And then BAM! I couldn't see the boards in lessons.

[HoopyFrood]

I was given reading glasses at first, to help relax my eyes when reading, but then I was given glasses so I could see distances (which were starting to get quite blurry) Now I wear my glasses all the time (and I think I look weird without them) and the world is a clear place once again!

And yeah, I'm quite the same Lenny...although it happened to me when I was about 12 or 13...I noticed faces were blurry at quite longer distances...and then it just went rapidly downhil. But before that, I had the best eye sight in my family.

[Asmiley]

See it's the glassses that ruin our eyes in the first place. we should complain.

[Lenny]

People who once said I looked weird in glasses now exclaim how weird I look without glasses whenever I take them off.

"OMG! Where's Lenny! What've you done with him?!" they cry.

Strange how thing so small can change your appearance so much.

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Haha! Too right Asmiley!

If we didn't wear them then our eyes should logically heal themselves.

[HoopyFrood]

Indeed...my vision is quite clear in the morning when they've had time to relax...but when I've spent a whole day in my glasses and take them off at night, the world's a blurry, fuzzy place.

Of course, it has nothing to do with my reading all the time or staring at the computer screen for hours on end!

[Asmiley]

or else we could always never know the differnce and not have to worry about it.^_^

[Lenny]

Of course it doesn't. If it did then every computer geek would be wearing glasses, as would every reading geek, and any hybrids would be royally screwed for life.

[Asmiley]

lol. O.o

randomly~ Smoogles!

[Lenny]

And what, pray, is a Smoogle?