By Maya Bourne and Delaney Pound
Always have something stuck in your eye
By Maya Bourne
Think of one time you have had to sneeze but the feeling has just gotten away from you and you feel that aching disappointment in the pit of your stomach. Now imagine that feeling for the rest of your life. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a pretty miserable life. If I lived life perpetually ready to sneeze, I’m sure I would live with my mouth open and an arm up to guard the chronically upcoming sneeze just out of grasp. Conversely, the feeling of something in your eye, while annoying, can largely be ignored. Just one little speck of dust may be a little uncomfortable at the beginning, as your eye is not used to having a foreign object in it, eventually, it will adjust to the new environment and you won’t even know it’s there. Comparing the ongoing need to sneeze– which will impact your everyday life and even your sleep schedule, as the desire to sneeze would probably keep me up at night– with just a little speck of dust in your eye shouldn’t even be a question. Though I would wish I could have neither of these afflictions, I am forced to say that I would much rather always have something stuck in my eye than always have to sneeze.
Always Have to Sneeze
By Delaney Pound
Eyelashes. Some are long, some are short, but 1-5 fall out every single day and grow back weeks later. “Where do these lost eyelashes go?” you may be asking. Well, some go into your eye and bug you the entire day when you can’t get it out. Undoubtedly, though, I’m sure at one point you have had the inconvenience of an eyelash, speck of dust, or pollen in your eye. I’m also sure that the experience wasn’t the greatest. Not only is having something in your eye a disturbance, it is also blinding in some cases. Imagine you’re taking a test and an eyelash unexpectedly gets logged into both of your eyes, making it extremely hard to see the test in front of you. Inevitably, you fail your test since you’re unable to read any of the questions or see what you’re writing. Wouldn’t that be terrible? Yes, yes it would. Now, imagine having to sneeze all of the time. You might be thinking that would be horrible, but you wouldn’t have any other struggles besides feeling unsatisfied with your inability to sneeze. You would probably get used to the feeling after a while, and it wouldn’t be that bad after all. So, between the two options, although I do not wish for either, I would rather always have to sneeze than have a foreign object stuck in my eyeball for the rest of my life.