A question my parents have asked me many times when they see a picture of themselves. I first recall this happening when I was either in 8th or 9th grade and we had pictures done for the church directory. I thought the picture was fine, but my dad kept going on and on about how OLD he looked in the picture...and alas the question, "Do I really look this old?" Now, at 14, my reply was, "Well, you look like that all the time." As I've grown older I realize this is an inappropriate response. "The lighting was bad, the photographer was an idiot, that color washes you out," are much more acceptable.
However, this got me thinking. I look at myself in the mirror each day, as do most people I'm assuming, and we never see the aging process on us as a whole. Not until we cannot fit into our "skinny" jeans, a flight of stairs turns into a nightmare, and you can tell when cold weather is coming, do we ask, "When the hell did I get old?"
I've very curious at pin-pointing when I begin to age, as least when my face begins to, so I've decided to take a photograph of my face everyday. Like I said, looking at these now I will not be able to see a difference, I'm not going to wake up one day and say, "Wow, I really aged yesterday!" It will however, be kind of interesting to see when "it" begins happening.
So...I'm putting it all out on the line...with make-up, with out make-up, adult acne, crows feet and things that I cannot even imagine....here we go!
As much as I love my 10-month old daughter, I distinctly began to feel old the second I had her. I notice now that when I try to "sneak" into her room, my joints and bones make more noise than the floorboards and that's just sad. I'm unsure if you have children, but let me know if this it's like this for all you women 29 or 30 years of age.... :-)
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