I know that staring at a screen all day is not the most healthy activity for our eyes. Human beings evolved on the open plains as hunters and we were tuned to see far distances in the light. We have poor night vision which is why most everyone, even those on the graveyard shift, get tired at night. We evolved in such a way that our sleep patterns were molded from our inability to be productive at night. I am sitting here staring at this computer screen, typing away and after a few hours I start to get nauseous and my head starts to hurt. It makes me think that this can’t be good for me. Plus I know that I’m not tuning my long range sight abilities by being ten inches from the screen, so wonder what good I am doing for my eyes. I guess maybe I’m doing my children a favor by sacrificing my eyes so that their eyes will be more attuned to looking at a computer screen. That is how evolution would have it, one generation must suffer with inadequate equipment so as to make an investment in further generations adaptation. That doesn’t stop my head from hurting, my eyes from stinging, or my stomach from being in a knot. I have no idea why the stomach feels the need to get involved, it doesn’t have anything to do with sight. Oh, well, I guess it’s just that misery loves company so the stomach figures what the hell, might as well join the pity party. Oh that stomach, such a bandwagoner.

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