Almost six out of ten people in the developed world wear glasses. This means that glasses could be stylish, but many have bad eyesight. And while the intentions behind wearing glasses could go either way, most people don\u2019t exactly consider the problems with glasses and the inconveniences they pose. You could even say there is a whole mini-world of problems with glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can argue that the range of problems with glasses is quite large and diverse. We can\u2019t go through every problem here, but if you do wear glasses, then you\u2019ll understand most, if not all, of the complications listed below. You have to readjust your glasses constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there were ever \u201cproblems with glasses 101,\u201d this would be one of the first lessons. Ever had a fly invade your headspace? Your hand goes up to your head every minute or so. One of the many burdensome problems with glasses is comparable to this fly-swatting scenario \u2013 but maybe a little less annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case, people wearing glasses constantly have to readjust the position of their glasses because of gravitational forces pulling them down, as they do with everything else on this planet. Adjusting glasses is one of many inescapable problems with glasses; there\u2019s a fine line between excessive and insufficient when it comes to fixing them. It sounds more like problems with priorities than problems with glasses, but it\u2019s no joke: push it too far into the face, and it\u2019s uncomfortable. But don\u2019t push it enough, and it\u2019s on the verge of falling off the face again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we could take all the time people spent adjusting their glasses and put it towards making them more convenient, we could probably reduce the number of problems with glasses. Still, we\u2019ll never know because we\u2019re too preoccupied with pushing up our glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You\u2019re annoyed when people ask if they can wear your glasses.<\/strong> Why are people so fascinated by glasses? There are many more problems with glasses than they think, and it doesn\u2019t improve anyone else\u2019s vision except yours. Yet there\u2019s always a strange unfounded expectation that somehow it will, kind of like the case of Peter Parker in Spiderman after the spider bites him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As if asking to wear your glasses was not enough, when and if you decide to let someone wear them, there\u2019s the follow-up question: \u201cHow many fingers am I holding up?\u201d That question alone produces a whole new set of problems with glasses. For the record, we can see how many fingers you hold up when your hand is an inch from our faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s worse is when you refuse to let someone wear your glasses, and the person takes your glasses anyway. Aside from your friend inducing panic because of how roughly he handled your glasses, you now have some nice smudges all over your perfectly beautiful glasses, which you just cleaned. Maybe you shouldn\u2019t have cleaned your glasses in front of your friend after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are red marks on your nose.<\/strong> But let\u2019s be real for a second. As in the last scenario, gravitational forces will still affect glasses\u2014even with fantastic ear rests. So at times, the nose gets a lot of stress from the bridge. It doesn\u2019t help that some of us wear glasses for long periods of time either because it can 1. Feel unpleasant, sometimes even hurt, or 2. Leave highly visible marks on our noses when we take our glasses off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These days most frames have the nose rest fused into the rest of the frame, alleviating at least one of the problems with glasses. But some styles, particularly metal frames, still call for plastic nose pads, and these nose pads will leave those red marks. And not to make light of any problems with glasses, but the red marks are only a slight inconvenience, and anyone new to glasses will get used to them soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sports and physical activities are a challenge.<\/strong> The other real issue is the product of sports and physical activities: sweat. And what does sweat combined with glasses mean? More problems with glasses. Sweat tends to make everything slippery. When everything is slippery, glasses are more prone to slide\u2014or fly, depending on your activity\u2014off the face, adding to the problems with glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simply put, we\u2019re going to be pushing up our glasses more often than if we\u2019re at rest, and for obvious reasons, this makes it hard to enjoy or focus on any physical activity fully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3D movies are more burdensome than enjoyable.<\/strong> Glasses over glasses are not the party people might think it is. Sure, it might be fun when you don\u2019t wear glasses and don\u2019t have to deal with other problems with glasses, but not when you normally wear glasses and have to wear an additional pair. Thankfully this is one of those problems with glasses that isn\u2019t entirely unavoidable, but we might as well go through why this one is so deplorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, there\u2019s the fact that you have to wear two pairs of glasses as if one pair as a testament to bad eyesight wasn\u2019t enough. Then you must ensure the crudely made and mass-produced \u201cReal 3D\u201d hard plastic doesn\u2019t crush and break your prescription glasses. There\u2019s also finding the decently comfortable position with the glasses\u2014but is there ever one? And, of course, there\u2019s always the need to contemplate if the 3D movie ticket was worth it and if the 3D content is even compelling, but that\u2019s a whole other issue apart from any problems with glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rain can be difficult.<\/strong> Yet this is perhaps one of the problems with glasses that is semi-avoidable. An umbrella will shield you from the rain, but of course, that\u2019s based on the assumption you have an umbrella. You could stay inside and not go in the rain, but there will certainly be days when you can\u2019t just stay inside all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Going to the beach comes with some trade-offs.<\/strong> There\u2019s no clear-cut remedy to the debacle, but you realize that aside from the other struggles with having glasses, the universal list of problems with glasses only grows. Finally, you come to the obvious conclusion that you must choose between two inconvenient trade-offs. First, you go in with your glasses with the ability to see clearly but risk getting salt on them, wet, and even losing them. The other would be to leave your glasses safe and clean from ocean water, but without being able to see that clearly and not being able to find your way back easily. That being said, it\u2019s a relief that going into the water isn\u2019t the only thing to do at the beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are a lot of problems with glasses, and surely you identified with many of these issues. 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You might make this lesson two in \u201cproblems with glasses 101.\u201d This is one of those problems with glasses that you might have encountered early on, and if you\u2019ve worn glasses at a young age, you will deeply understand this one. Better yet, you might\u2019ve contemplated why people even bother asking\u2014many times. The fact of the matter is that people will most definitely ask if they can wear your glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the many problems with glasses, this is one that anyone who wears them can easily relate to. The guy who invented glasses was pretty smart\u2014that bridge in the middle helps utilize both eyes instead of just one. Then someone in the 1700s thought that only having a bridge created more problems with glasses than solutions and said that some ear rests would make these things amazing. Can you imagine having no ear rests and just having glasses rest solely on the nose? That definitely would have added to the already numerous problems with glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sports and physical activities are fantastic. But unfortunately for many of us, there are problems with glasses in sports and physical activities because glasses, by nature, are very fragile objects. There is just too much force from running into someone and\u2014snap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here we can say we graduated \u201cproblems with glasses 101\u201d because this is the advanced tier of problems with glasses. Anyone wearing glasses will understand that it’s an instant sigh when someone says, “Let\u2019s go watch the movie in 3D.” Maybe it\u2019s because 3D movies aren\u2019t worth the extra money, but the true inconvenience lies in the 3D glasses, particularly for anyone wearing glasses because they only create more problems with glasses. Neither the 3D glasses\u2019 lack of functionality nor the inability to compel you that this movie is really in front of you is the problem. No, it\u2019s a lot simpler than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like sports, rain isn\u2019t necessarily the issue. However, rain can be a factor that provokes you to reconsider that there are many problems with glasses. For starters, rain is pretty inconvenient without an umbrella. It\u2019s like driving a car with non-functioning windshield wipers: it\u2019s hard to see. It\u2019s possible to wipe off the water, but doing it every couple of minutes\u2014like adjusting the position of the glasses\u2014is troublesome. And if you don\u2019t have the cleaning cloth or are not wearing the right fabric, it doesn\u2019t help too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Picture this. It\u2019s a beautiful summer day with clear skies and a high 90. You get to the beach, and it is packed. You first want to run into the cool dark blue Atlantic with who-knows-what swimming in there for a bit of relief from the sun beating you down. But wait. Do you take your glasses with you or leave them by the parasol and the rest of your stuff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n