Deciding on Lasik surgery is an example to teach young people: the time to be pessimistic about something is when the cost of failure is high. A 1 in 20 chance of damaging your eyesight is a bad bet. People that have Lasik done eventually need glasses again anyway so why bother.
My ophthalmologist gave the same advice.
“People that have Lasik done eventually need glasses again anyway so why bother.”
Exactly.
A major complaint of post cataract extraction nearsighted patients is “I need glasses to see anything up close!”
It is so nice that when I take off my glasses I have one eye that focuses on my computer, the other a bit closer.
Up close uncorrected vision is more valuable to me than uncorrected distance.