"Protect like your eyes" is a famous proverb when we trying to mention protect something very carefully and religiously. But Are you really protecting your eyes like that ? Specially community like steemit where the constant interaction required for keep up with the community people tend to spend hours and hours upon computers. Not only computers, specially mobile devices which has more brightness and pixel density.
This wouldn't make you feel much different at the short run. You would get small itching in the eyes. May be little bit of burning sensation. But if this continues over the time your eye sight would decrease dramatically and tend to get very dangerous sicknesses like "glaucoma" which leads to permanent blindness. No matter even if you earn thousands of dollars right now, if you become blind its useless. If you don't believe me close your eyes for 10 minutes and try to do your normal activities as usual and see if you able to do them as your liking.
So what would be the solution. The best solution i came across was the 20 20 20 principle. Which means while you are working on your computer, every 20 minutes you are looking at a 20 minute distance for 20 seconds. Sounds very easy right. But the thing is you need to do this as a habit . so that your eyes get less pressure and stain on them. I would say, set up your PC next to a window. so every 20 minutes you can just stair out of the window for few seconds and get back to work .
Protect your eyes guys. Believe me if you become blind, world would be not the same that once you lived upon.
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