Today in college, Kennard gave me lessons on how to wear contact lessons, the Kennard way. I watched him widen his eye and rapidly pop the soft lens into it. He made it look so easy. I was tempted to go back to the optician and try on the contact lenses again.
Kenn: See this? It's an eye. O.o
So after college, I told my mom I wanted to go back to the shop to try the lenses. (eagerness)
Mom: I can take you there after 4.
Me: What are you doing before 4?
Mom: TV. 3 to 4 pm.
Me: Now's not even 3... it's only 2.
Mom: You'll surely take more than 1 hour. By the time you finish putting your lens in, it'll be dinner time.
Me: .......
Oh well. Smart woman. Knows how to manage her time properly =.=
Anyway, I should be totally grateful she agreed to take me to the shop once again, and the optician there was grinning from ear to ear when he saw me.
Man: Oh hi, you're back! I thought you said you didn't want to put on contacts for the next few months?
Me: Yeah. I did. But I changed my mind.
So I sat down and this time, I spent nearly an hour to put one lens into my eye. I chose hazel just for the fun of it. The minute the lens went into my eye, my eye burned like crazy. It became so red and watery and I couldn't open it for the next few minutes. It was real pain for a single eye to bear. At that spur of moment when my eyes started to burn, I had a panicking thought that I was going to go blind. o.O
About 5 minutes after I'd inserted the hazel lens in.
Apparently, according to the optician who wouldn't stop laughing, it happens to almost everybody when they first start wearing contacts. Phew. Just checkin'.
Later on, I decided to try brown because it's a more natural color, and it took me about 15 minutes or so to pop it in.
And once again, my eye stung like hell.
It's not yellow. It's brown.
But it looked pretty much like the hazel lens, so I had a hard time debating between both of them. Anyway, I was overjoyed because I finally managed to get the lenses in!!! I probably took like 1 hour and 15 minutes to get both lenses in, but who cares?? I finally got them in and that was all that matter - at that moment.
Then not too long after that, I realized that I was going to have to get them out.
Oh shit.
The optician said it was going to be easy. Boy, he was wrong!
I think I took 30 minutes trying to get them out. =( I think putting them in is so much easier! It scared me when he said: U open your eye, then you pinch the lens out.
Pinch is a dangerous term when it comes to the eye. What if you ter-pinch your eyeball??
But apparently, according to the optician (again), such things never happen. So yeah, I was just being paranoid, as usual.
I ordered the brown lenses, and left the shop with my mom. I think all of us - including the optician - were totally relieved that I'd finally crossed the stage of being able to insert the lenses in and take them out.
Moral of story:
Contact lenses are freaky.
You gotta be extremely patient to be an optician, which I don't have to worry about cuz that's not my ambition
Never give up. With strong determination, no matter what it takes, it'll be worth what you strived for.
It doesn't have to be a big thing, you know. It could be something as small as... contacts :)Lol I've written enough crap for a day. I need to study for my upcoming exams now. Peace.
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