A little over a year ago I needed to wear glasses every day.

Today I put them on for the first time in weeks.

The biggest difference between now and then: My sleep schedule.

Let me tell you, my sleep schedule is incredibly consistent.

I go to bed at 9pm, and I wake up anywhere from 4:45 → 5:15am.

This varies a total of 30 minutes each way.

I’ve been sleeping like this for about a year now.

I wear my watch to bed, a fancy thing that monitors heart-rate and therefore tracks my sleep.

And while I wouldn’t put too much stock into the accuracy of the tracking on any given night, over the course of a year it’s demonstrated some pretty consistent trends.

In general, I front-load deep sleep earlier in the night, with REM sleep usually happening before I wake up.

This has been an extremely reliable trend for over a year now.

I have a slight stigmatism, fairly minor, making me farsighted- I can see far away, but its harder to see up close.

Last year I was well on my way from recovering from career burnout, and I just couldn’t see the tiny text on my screen.

I finally bit the bullet and purchased glasses when my partner saw my screen and blurted “Wow that text is huge!”

There was no denying it then.

I started wearing glasses, and I really wore them. I just embraced the glasses life so that I could own the glasses look. Maybe not the best motivating reason but hey, it worked for me.