Take comfort in the happy chance that greater wisdom and cataracts may have arrived at the same time. Wisdom is often characterized as the ability to know the difference between the things you can and cannot change. Well, in a wonderful turn of events, the ability to change how perfectly you see without glasses for both reading and distance after cataract surgery has been moved by technology from the ‘cannot change’ list, over to the list of things you ‘can change’ and enjoy better vision.