I went to my eye doctor yesterday for a checkup and because my eyes were red. I learned many things.
One of the things she said is that when you focus on things close to you, it strains your eyes. I learned this long ago and bought larger screens to reduce this. Now with a projector my eyes feel better than they ever have.
However I do play Marvel Strike Force on the iPad and now I am questioning that decision. Not only because of the things going on in the game that aren’t player friendly, but because of learning that just using an iPad/tablet is straining my eyes.
I’m not afraid to make bold decisions to improve my life. On one hand I have clear evidence that it contributes to the eye redness. On the other hand is that I also have the problem with my iPhone and that has the same issue as the iPad. Its small screen is a strain and while I avoid doing anything on it, I can’t get rid of the iPhone so easily.
So what seems clear to me is that I should use the iPhone/iPad as little as possible to protect my eyes. This means that I will need to get an emulator to play Strike Force with. Many content creators talk about the ones they use. With this, I can connect it to my projector screen and not have the eye strain. I looked at doing this earlier but I got distracted. Today I will make this happen.
Being healthy is a choice, and it often requires us to change our behaviors. From now on the iPad is not something that I will be choosing to use.