A viewer asks: “I have been wearing glasses since I was young. I suspect I actually didn’t need them, but it was foisted on me due to a concerned family friend who raised the alarm to my parents when I complained of not being able to see the blackboard from the back of the classroom. I think this was a temporary fluctuation in vision acuity, but the glasses themselves paralyze eye muscles and lock in bad vision. First of all, is my theory correct that the glasses themselves deteriorated my eyesight to the point of a vicious cycle of dependency?” What can we tell him?

There is, indeed, a kind of interdependence such devices will promote, but this is, like all physical adjuncts and would-be solutions, a question of particular needs and circumstances as well as the capabilities of you yourself and your makeup to constitute a workable system capable of making the needed course corrections and adjustments to provide optimal functioning. There are many human beings whose vision is too greatly impaired to get along without some kind of outside help through a physical corrective mechanism. In your case, your vision issues were minor in nature and could have been corrected through divine intervention alone as a healing goal.