Seagull58
In the Algarve
This is me also. I can't get the nerve to have laser surgery and been told it only lasts for a limited period of time?
It's not that it only lasts for a limited period of time. As you get older your focussing muscles lose their elasticity and people with normal vision often (usually) need reading glasses. After laser surgery to correct your vision the same change occurs, so your distance vision will be fine but you will probably need reading glasses once you are into your fifties or sixties. A way round this is to have one eye corrected to be slightly short-sighted. Then you are effectively reading with one eye and distance viewing primarily with the other eye. You lose some quality of vision going down this route because of the inability to focus with both eyes on distant objects.