The Irish Guy wrote:At times I wish that I actually had some sort of defect with my eyes that made them overly sensitive to light, so I would be required to wear sunglasses to see clearly. The bonus to that is the fact that I could then wear sunglasses at night, and if I took them off I could see in the dark.
Trust me, you
don't want that. My eyes are extremely light sensitive, and I absolutely cannot be out on an even mildly bright day without darker-than-hells-maw sunglasses on. Sure, I have some badass shades, but I'd like to be able to take them off more often. My vision is fine - quite good in fact - but my iris (one in particular) has trouble restricting light (actually has a chunk missing, like a pie slice. It's pretty cool to look at). So, I can either wear the pirate-patch (Me: "Yar!" People: "You look like an idiot"), or wear sunglasses nearly all the time (People: "You know it's -night time-, right?"). Yeah, my night vision is wicked-good, but as soon as I catch an eyeful of some oncoming car's highbeams, that goes away in a hurry. Staring at this computer screen for marathon sessions doesn't help either, but I'm stubborn.
Wishing something like this upon oneself reminds me of when I was in school.. and in the middle of the winter (in northern MI at the time), there were always kids at the bus stop that were too cool to wear their coats when it was 15 below zero with waist-high snow. They froze their stupid asses off for vanity's sake, and the rest of us pointed and laughed. Nothing personal, just an example.
If you still really want f**ked up eyes, I'd be happy to trade you my messed-up hazel iris for one of your good ones. Either that, or I'll just stab it out with a spoon so that I don't have to deal with it anymore.
And this concludes the first and final episode of "More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Decavolt." We now return you to our regularly scheduled secretive normality.