Remember bifocals and how, looking into your grandparents’ magnified eyes, you would never have thought in a million years that you’d be wearing the same thing?

Four decades and ageing eyes later, you’re here thanking technology and thanking fate that maybe you were lucky as well. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten positive comments about progressive glasses- headaches, blurring, fainting, crashing the car (unlikely for me because I don’t drive).

However, I only considered them because I mistakenly thought they were going to be cheaper. I wasn’t convinced they were going to work so I thought, might as well get cheaper frames so if it turned out that they were blurry, made me faint or crash into things, the expense wasn’t going to be too much. As it turned out, I was wrong on the 1st one and correct on the 2nd.

The gradation of the lenses was seamless and allowed me to finally have just one pair where I can see what’s far, what’s in the middle (like three feet away from me) and what’s up close like when I’m reading.

I would most likely still use my current glasses (I have two) for long distance and the other for reading like when I’m home, but I wouldn't need to bring two pairs every time I went out (worse when I’ taking photos where I need to switch to my readers to see what I had taken). Still, they don’t come cheap at over $900 where the cost of the Armani frames that I picked was just $150.