Looking After Your Eyes We rely on all of our five senses in order to live a fulfilled life but out of all of these, the one that we rely on more than the others is our sense of sight. When I was at school, a standard question which we were asked was “if you had to give up one of your five senses, which one would you give up?” There was no right or wrong answer to this question, just an essay which we had to write. The one sense that no one ever said that they could give up voluntarily was sight.
The ability to see is one of the greatest gifts which we have been given and it is easy to see (pun unintended) why we would not give it up easily. Our eyes play such an important role in our lives and yet we often take them for granted and even abuse them. The latest thing which people have started to do is to have eyelid surgery in order to appear we get older, the elasticity of our skin reduces and we find that certain areas will be prone to sagging. One of these areas is …