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Contact lens or eyeglasses, which do you prefer?

Ever since my love affair with my contact lenses started, I had to adjust my daily routine with few minutes of putting on a pair of these tiny secret eyeglasses inside my eyes. This practice has eventually become easier with time that I don’t even need a mirror to accurately position one tiny circle of […]

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Life

Tiny secret glasses

Have you ever wondered how it is to live with some tiny secret glasses stuck inside your eyes? Yes, I’m talking about wearing contact lenses. Every day, you have to rinse and clean both lenses before putting on your eyes, take them off and soak them before going to sleep. When the air gets dusty, […]

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Simply Me

Stubborn nearsighted kid

Since I was a kid back in grade school, I was already nearsighted and had to wear eyeglasses. Yes, it’s in our genes; my dad, mom, bros and sis are nearsighted as well. It just so happened that my weak eyesight condition came out earlier than the others. I had a hard time with my […]

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Health and Fitness

Seeing my world clearly

I had an eye check-up recently for a pair of contact lenses. I have been wearing contacts since college and I feel more comfortable wearing them instead of eyeglasses. But I can say that my pair of eyeglasses has been helpful to me when one of my contacts broke into 3 pieces. Thankfully, it didn’t […]

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On being nearsighted

During my elementary days, I was one of those genius-looking kids wearing bulky eyeglasses… and I find it so uncomfortable. I would take it off at school and just squinted if I needed to focus on far objects. This visual deficiency was inherited from my Mom who was nearsighted. Even my siblings are nearsighted too […]

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Life

Seeing clearly

Having poor eyesight when I was still a kid was a big discomfort to me. Mom took me to the optometrist for a checkup and days after I was sporting some big framed eyeglasses in school. Ugh. I resented it a lot that time so I would secretly took out my eyeglasses as soon as […]