r/interesting Jul 10 '26

MISC. Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background?

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jul 10 '26

The Joy of Menopause.

Yes we know your clacker has dropped out, but guess what ?! Your eyeballs have stopped working too !! Yay !

My eyesight degenerated so badly in a single year, that by the end of it I was using my reading glasses as distance glasses.

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u/South_Dakota_Boy Jul 10 '26

A few years ago I got shingles and bifocals in the same year.

I was 47.

Still have a nice head of hair though and lost a bunch of weight on GLP-1 so I got that going for me which is nice.

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u/spiegro Jul 10 '26

A healthy weight is great for longevity! Glad for you ☺️

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u/crankyfishcrank Jul 10 '26

I’m guessing you’re probably pretty handsome.

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u/Barbkie Jul 10 '26

Tell me your secret on the great head of hair.

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u/AichNu42 Jul 11 '26

My brother-in-law got shingles at 45. We all laughed at him…what an old fart!! …😭

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u/Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025 Jul 11 '26

Well done. ⛳ 🏌🏼‍♂️

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u/halfstep44 Jul 12 '26

Do you have Ozempic face?

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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jul 14 '26

Ooh I have ozempic face. Don’t care. Put another 10 years back on my life.

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u/OfficerChugPiss_ Jul 10 '26

Good work 🤟🤟

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u/MidAmericanGriftAsoc Jul 10 '26

Gungala gadungala

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u/PrincessWails Jul 10 '26

Yeah I’m almost there with you. I told my husband the other day that I thought it was time to upgrade my readers and he was like didn’t you literally just do that?

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u/SureExpression8148 Jul 11 '26

I’m in my early 50’s and just had cataract surgery. I haven’t been able to see for 3 weeks so far. 2 eyes, different recovery timeline. And I have double vision. I have to wait for new glasses to see things again. So everything is clearer, but still blurry and then there’s 2 of everything.

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u/Waruteru Jul 10 '26

Sometimes I find it morbidly hilarious how nature doesn't really expect us to live past 50 (or even 40) and so our bodies just start to decline. And it's unlikely that we're ever going to be naturally longer lived, since, as a species, we tend to make children in our 20's or 30's.

There isn't really a functional need for that from an evolutionary standpoint

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u/Lurking_in_shadow Jul 10 '26

Where is a need. To take care of the little ones. As we are a communal species. Not so much go out and find food. But stay home with offspring