I started hearing about it when I was a member of this committee, meeting with some of the eye care professionals at my office. It was a subject that I had a great interest in. I've always had fairly poor vision and I've always tried to look after my eyes. It makes me cringe when I think of people who are not looking after their eyes. I look around this table and I see there are a lot of people in the same situation I'm in. I see a lot of corrective eyewear around this table. So I think you can understand where I'm coming from.
When you are young and have no vision problems, you see yourself as invincible. We need to do what we can to protect our young people. I have grandchildren coming up, too. I certainly don't want to see anything happen to their eyes. Something I've lived with all my life is poor eyesight, and good eyesight is something I value very highly. When the last thing you do at night is take your glasses off and the first thing you do in the morning is put them on, you realize what it's like not to be able to see too well.
So it was something that I had a great interest in, and I think it will especially help the young people in our society.