Agreed, though you make them sound a lot worse than they are. For me, getting contact lenses was one of the best things I ever did, and liked them as soon as I

Agreed, though you make them sound a lot worse than they are. For me, getting contact lenses was one of the best things I ever did, and liked them as soon as I tried them on. I hadn't seen my own reflection without glasses from a distance in over 10 years. I'd forgotten what it was like to have decent peripheral vision. They gave me a +2 boost to confidence, purely for vanity reasons. They were annoying to get in at first, though that was the only real issue. Once you get the trick of it (for me, getting over squeamishness about touching my eyes), it's generally between 5 and 30 seconds. I know glasses are more convenient (to put on - you don't have to constantly clean contacts throughout the day, and they're less prone to getting lost) - and I like having both. Glasses are to lenses as slippers are to shoes - something I wear when I first wake up for convenience. I'd been put off getting contacts for years, since I hated things being near my eyes, however I now recommend them to all my bespectacled friends. Also, I find it easier to imagine tech like this article as contacts rather than glasses - contacts are much more like an extension of your body.