Since I am not 18 anymore things have slowly began to go downhill. Well, I'm okay generally, I can still walk a few miles if I have to, I can still cycle into work at some speed. But it's the eyes that are beginning to give out. I got glasses when I was 11, and then started wearing contact lenses some 15 years later. Now I'm back to glasses, because I need reading glasses. I went to the optician a while ago to have my eyes checked and he was a very nice and a very funny man. He just advised me to get some cheap reading glasses ("Oh, so I can go to the department store next door and get some". "Yes, or you could get them from me") and told me that that would be enough for the next few years, it all shouldn't get much worse. He had the same problem as me "Well, we are more or less the same age". He was something of a charmer.
Now I find myself becoming more and more dependent on my glasses. In a shop I have trouble reading the ingredients on various products, and sometimes I need to to make sure they really are vegetarian, at the computer I sometimes cheat and make the letters a little bigger, but I do need my glasses, and now it is during meetings I have to get them out when I want to read the minutes. I'm not the only one, but it does take some getting used to.
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