Growing Older- Why I Hate Old Photographs
I generally tend to avoid browsing through old photo albums. Who has the time, and frankly after a few minutes it usually gets kind of boring.
Thanksgiving has a way of generating the photo instinct and cameras are usually at the ready to record the event which inexorably leads to a desire by our guests to check out the nostalgic past of Thanksgiving Days gone bye.
That means I have to sift through 30 years of aging.
Oh MY GOD!!
Time has not been very kind.
That head of hair I used to have made me look like Justin Bieber.
The waste line and gravity have also taken their toll.
Oh look- -there's me wearing a combination of clothes that makes me look like I was an extra in Starsky and Hutch!
The beard was dark in those days ( and can easily be again if I had any ambition to use Just For Men!)
Let's stay away from pictures where I weighed in about 50 pounds more than I do today or for that matter the pictures where I am wearing a 3M Logo shirt!!
OUCH!
Now I totally understand why the movie stars my age have so much cosmetic surgery!
Crap. .
John Travolta and Bruce Willis are looking just fine and Sting and Elton John somehow figured out a way to still have their hair!
On the other hand; Mr. Miami Vice, Don Johnson and the once sexy guy from CHIPS are my new heroes because they are aging worse than me!
I don't look any taller thank God unless you compare me now to my sons who are both taller than me.
BUT. .
Thanksgiving has a way of generating the photo instinct and cameras are usually at the ready to record the event which inexorably leads to a desire by our guests to check out the nostalgic past of Thanksgiving Days gone bye.
Now I am getting ancient rather quickly and my children are about the age I was when we had them.
That means I have to sift through 30 years of aging.
Oh MY GOD!!
Time has not been very kind.
The waste line and gravity have also taken their toll.
Oh look- -there's me wearing a combination of clothes that makes me look like I was an extra in Starsky and Hutch!
The beard was dark in those days ( and can easily be again if I had any ambition to use Just For Men!)
Let's stay away from pictures where I weighed in about 50 pounds more than I do today or for that matter the pictures where I am wearing a 3M Logo shirt!!
OUCH!
Now I totally understand why the movie stars my age have so much cosmetic surgery!
Crap. .
John Travolta and Bruce Willis are looking just fine and Sting and Elton John somehow figured out a way to still have their hair!
On the other hand; Mr. Miami Vice, Don Johnson and the once sexy guy from CHIPS are my new heroes because they are aging worse than me!
I don't look any taller thank God unless you compare me now to my sons who are both taller than me.
It's small wonder I'm depressed today!
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