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15 Reasons Why Having Bad Eyesight Really Sucks

Those who have perfect vision don't know how lucky they are. Between the expenses and the pain of dried-out contacts, having bad eyesight is the worst. Put on your glasses, pop in your contacts, and read about all the reasons why it sucks.

1. You’ll never know what its like to wake up and see the world clearly.

You spend five minutes slapping your bedside table before you find you glasses only then can you can open the curtains and check the weather.

2. Accidentally falling asleep with contacts in is hell.

Feeling tired? Better hurry up and take those contacts out because within 10 minutes of sleep, those babies become sandpaper. They glue themselves to your corneas and take minutes of cursing, tearing, and blinking to rehydrate. It's as dry as the Sahara in there not to mention they become so blurry you can't see until you get them out.

3. Picking frames.

There are, like, 3,000 options when picking out glasses. You can try on 70 different pairs, but one thing is always certain, they are an accessory that won't match every outfit. Which sucks considering they are essential to your everyday life.

4. $$$$

Eye doctor visits add up, especially if you don’t have optical insurance. Nice frames can run up to $500, and contacts can be even more if you buy dailies. There's no winning for the visually impaired. The price of sight is too damn high.

5. Swimming.

You can’t wear your glasses in water, unless you want to risk losing them, and swimming with contacts is awful. It’d be nice for once to swim and be able to see your surroundings, but the risk of losing a contact and stumbling around with only one for the rest of the day is just not worth it.

6. Showering.

Like swimming, you can't wear glasses or contacts in the shower. I hope your vision is good enough to read the soap bottles. If you shave your legs, the struggle is all too real. You end up petting your leg with one hand, squinting at the fuzzy spot then attempting to hit it with a razor because God knows that stubble is hard enough to find with 20/20 vision.

7. The comments.

"You look better with glasses on”...is that a diss to my face? Do you not like my face without glasses? Or, “You look better without glasses”...well, too bad, I like to see, huh?

8. Can I try your glasses on?

Then there's always the “Oh, you really are blind,” comment that follows as if you were just wearing glasses for fun. My glasses have been compared to drunk goggles on multiple occasions.

9. Sports and athletics.

You had two options as a young athlete, either you had to suck it up and learn how to put contacts in, or your mom bought you a nice pair of sport goggles that the whole team ridiculed you for.

10. Sunglasses.

You unfortunately can't wear regular glasses and sunglasses at the same time. You either have to wear contacts or invest in prescription sunglasses...which kinda sucks because you can't wear them when you wear contacts. So you have to carry around your regular glasses to switch on and off with your sunglasses when you're in or outside; and that's just plain tedious.

11. Eye doctor visits.

These are anything but pleasant. You get poked, numbed, prodded, and dilated. Then you go through a series of tests where you have to decide which letter is clearer than the last. Those who have never experienced dilation should consider themselves lucky because after this trip to paradise, you get to spend the next 4-24 hours looking like a goldfish.

12. The contact game.

This is a fun one, when you take out your contacts before securing the location of your glasses and you have to put them back in again or phone a friend for visual aid.

13. Running out of contacts.

Hope you didn’t want to go to the gym because trying to keep a pair of glasses on a sweaty nose is nearly impossible.

14. Wearing makeup.

If you wear eye makeup with contacts it has a tendency to pool in the corner of your eyes, which is gross. But nothing is more fun than when a freshly massacred eyelash wedges itself underneath your contact. The struggles of eye makeup with glasses are almost even worse. You can spend so much time creating the perfect winged liner only for it to be hidden by glasses, and if you wear too much mascara your lashes hit your lenses all day, which is extremely irritating.

15. Don't want to live with them, can't live without them.

Let's face it, you’re stuck with this terrible vision. Unless you want to go through the pain of lasik (not to mention the price) you just have to deal with it. But don’t worry, it only lasts for the rest of your life.