It depends on your age and the sorts of preferred activities you do most of the time.
Most professional athletes are mild to moderately hyperopic (the non-age-related farsightedness). They typically see better than 20/20 at a distance -which comes in very useful for chasing balls, pucks, and for target practice.
Myopic (nearsighted) people need glasses or contact lenses to see properly at distance but have a default focal point at near. This can come in handy in middle age when presbyopia sets in and most of their friends are getting reading glasses. A middle-age myope can typically just take off his glasses and see up close without readers. Such people often prefer this to wearing bifocals.
_Written by J. Trevor Woodhams, M.D. – Chief of Surgery, Woodhams Eye Clinic