I can't believe I'm admitting this but, I need readers.

I'll be 49 this year. I've worn glasses, well contact lenses 95% of the time, since I was 22 years old. My vision has always been about 20/30 meaning that I need glasses to see things far away. Things that are within an arms length or so have always looked fine and I've never needed glasses to see things close-up.

I've watched my parents and older relatives start to deal with readers in their '40's but somehow I didn't. There's no use in speculating why other than I don't watch much television. My work days are spent starting at various computer screens though. Since getting a smartphone and iPad, I probably spend way too much time staring at those screens...mainly for reading as I'm not a fan of watching movies on those devices (nor do I have the time.)

Because I wear contacts for distance correction, they help my eyes focus on things that are far away. The muscles in my eyes have always been able to contract to view things up close clearly even with the contacts in. However, something seems to have changed just in the last week and I find myself reaching for readers to see things on both my iphone screen and, for the first time just a few minutes ago, on my laptop screen.

I guess no matter how hard we try and outrun him, Father Time catches up with everyone.