3-2-1 Contacts

And it doesn't look that way to me in my eyes.(Minor Threat, “In My Eyes”)

There is an awesome commercial that says "When you can't breathe, nothing else matters." Indeed. Only slightly less true is that when you can't see not much else matters. Especially when cycling, driving or taking notes in class. I know this because (due to laziness and idiocy) I have gone for about three years without seeing (anything farther than 15 feet clearly, anyway).

I never bothered going to the doc to get a new prescription to replace my glasses after I lost them in my bike wreck. For over two years. In spite of my constant struggle in classes to read what professors were writing on boards, seeing signs (or much of anything) while driving at night, and missing holes in the road etc while riding my bike. However, as our bike tour from Portland to San Francisco became imminent, I finally make an appointment with the opthamologist (literally a week before we left. Procrastinate much, Ill?) I used the trial pair of contacts I was given for the ride. . . .and for every other time I cared to see for the next nine months. For reasons unknown (even to myself) I never bothered filling the prescription for my contacts. (I also never bothered getting glasses; but that’s completely understandable, as far as I’m concerned, as it’s incredibly difficult to find glasses that fit my face.)
 
Recently, as the cycling season approaches (and as the year-long shelf life of my prescription is coming to an end), I’ve become interested in seeing once again. This interest prompted me to scrounge up my prescription and order some contacts online (as it’s too much effort to go into an actual store. Right?). Shockingly, even though I ordered them late Friday afternoon, they were in the mail yesterday! And now the world looks like a photograph, instead of a watercolor painting. The edges, depth perception and capacity to see while driving at night is amazing! So amazing that I think I may actually try to stick with this whole seeing thing this time around.