Over the years, I have contemplated wearing them again, not for the sake of fashion but do to their practicality. While the mask requirements this past year made me start seriously considering them, it was my decision to start skiing that really tipped the scales in favor of contact lenses. It will also be nice to wear sunglasses again without paying a separate set of prescription glasses.
One issue is that I wear progressive bifocals and contact lenses have some difficulty in replicating that ability. The sample contacts that I wore today made reading anything up close very difficult as my vision seemed to double as I concentrated on objects that were closer to my face. This doubling did not matter if I only used one eye. Oddly, the doubled images were clear; they just fuzzed themselves out, making them hard to see. I should also note that window screens seem to be harder to see through too.
Otherwise, I actually enjoyed wearing the contacts again. For the first time in thirty years, I could clearly see my periphery. That might sound a bit ridiculous, but it affected me profoundly, as though the entire world came into focus again. I felt like I did the first time I went outside after getting my first pair of glasses. On an strange side note: I remember being criticized before I ever wore glasses for a drawing of mine that showed the leaves of a deciduous tree as just squiggles from different colored pencils. I didn't understand the complaint as that was how the tree actually looked to me. When I first wore glasses, I looked up at the trees and could see the individual leaves at a distance for the first time that I could remember, and I only then understand the complaint about the earlier drawing that I had made.
My eye doctor has ordered a different prescription that will hopefully deal with the near-vision issues. Until they come in, he wants me to keep using these sample lenses to see how I feel about them. I really hope that it works out.