The eye is the window to the soul, it is your light to in this world and as such one of the most important, essential organs in the body that ought to be dealt with, with care and seriousness. The future of any community or state or country depends to the large extent on their youthful population and how they are groomed and in the same vain the population of the youth depends on the children being brought up today, for it is the children who would become youths and the youths who would grow to become adults nonetheless how well can our youth do if they do not have their eye sight, how would they reach their zenith if they cannot see what goes around them. For this we must invest in our ocular health especially for the youth to ensure sight protection and preservation in the future.
As it stands, lots of pathologies both systemic and localized to the eye are causing lots of people to loss their vision day in day out. In the olden days hardly would you find a youth with diabetes mellitus, hypertension and the likes, however in our modern day, our youth is getting these diseases more than the ages whose systems are senile and as such were more expected to have these diseases. Every single one of these conditions have a detrimental effect on our eyes and if not treated well could cause us our vision, yet still it is difficult convincing one to go for a regular eye checkup especially in the developing countries. Until they start experiencing certain symptoms they would cave.
It is sad that it continue to happen so however today I would like to encourage all my readers to take their eye health seriously, do not take anything for granted and avoid self-treatment with over the counter medication. Visit your Optometrist regularly. Your health is your wealth.