A closer look
Microscopic shadows cast on your retina by tiny clumps of collagen proteins drifting freely inside the gel-like vitreous humor of your eyeball are what create those annoying squiggly lines commonly known as eye floaters; these permanent internal optical guests become increasingly prominent as you age and the gel inside your eye slowly liquefies, serving as a constant, inescapable visual reminder of your own biological decay every time you try to look at a bright blue sky or a blank white screen, forcing you to occasionally bat at invisible gnats like a chaotic feline while trying to pretend your vision is not slowly filling up with the cellular debris of your own degrading eyeballs
