I'm right there with you on all aspects, just swap the shooting a rifle for shooting photos and painting. I'm four years older than you and had to wear glasses after I started working with computers beginning of the 90s. For convenience purpose I actually opted for contacts and have been wearing them ever since. Sure I also have glasses and had prescription sunnies, but contacts are just too convenient to me. I have been near sighted now for about 30 years and it got worse and worse, so eventually I had to get bi-focals as well. Luckily by now even contacts come as bifocals. But with age the difference between near and far sight got so big that I now have over the counter reading glasses with me all the time, just in case 😁. Still, it is somewhat inconvenient and costly, but the 'alternative' is so much worse.
Im glad you found a good optometrist and were able to adapt your lifestyle to wearing glasses.
Hmm, contact lenses...I must be odd because I can't seem to get them in...tries a few times and keep messing it up. Gave up.
I kept forgetting my reading glasses and ended up squinting all the time trying to read things at the supermarket and menus and things. Annoying. Now...I just drop the sunnies off my forehead and I'm gtg.
Of course I have to sometimes endure someone saying sarcastically, gee it's dark in here.
Sometimes I reply with something I won't repeat right now, and sometimes with, gee it's judgemental in here. Both of which come with my patented look of disdain.