"Girl Eyes Tend to Hypnotize"

Today, at twenty-one years old, I wore my first pair of contact lenses. There was some mistaken line of thought while I was in high school that I couldn't get soft contact lenses because they would accelerate the degeneration of my vision, so I was told I could only have hard (gas permeable) contact lenses. After trying very unsuccessfully to get them in and out of my eyes (hard to do when having them in feels like a circular hole is being cut into your cornea with glass), I gave up and resigned myself to just having really cute glasses. I do have really cute glasses, but I figured that asking my new optometrist about soft contact lenses couldn't hurt since I was going in for a check-up and new glasses lenses anyway. He thought soft contacts were a great option for me, so long story short I now have soft contact lenses, and I'm in the process of getting used to them. I've already been told several times that I have very striking eyes--their effect must have been dulled by my distinctive glasses before. I don't think I'll wear the contacts every day, but it'll be great to have that option if I want to be cute or dressy or go swimming or if I have extra time to get ready in the morning. All-in-all, I'm pretty satisfied with this subtle change in my lifestyle.