Getting old sucks, as they say.
When I was in high school, I read a book about making Dobsonian telescopes and I remember it mentioned, as an aside, that as people age their pupils get smaller and it reduces visual accuity. I noted the anecdote, but didn’t think much more about it at the time. According to Amazon, I bought that book in June, 1998.
This week, a little over 26 years later, I bought this gizmo:
I guess my pupils have been getting smaller.