When you get older...you notice a few odd things!

THE REVERSE DORIAN GRAY EFFECT

Everyone knows all about Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and the principle involved therein.  To wit, Basil Hallward paints his portrait and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if he could always remain young and the painting instead would grow old.
The wish is granted and Dorian pursues a life of wild abandon full of amoral experiences while staying young; meanwhile, his portrait ages and captures every sin.
Well, I've discovered it is more terrifying the other way around!

Yes! It's even worse to see your picture staying young and fresh while you slowly deteriorate and fall apart piece by piece!

The 10 Year Challenge!

There's a new trend going on in Facebook and Instagram which consists of posting two side by side photographs of you, taken ten years apart. The underlining message is, I suppose, to show the world how well (or how poorly) you've aged in those years. Of course, if you are like Benjamin Bottom, the result can be quite interesting, but for the rest of the humans, the sight of showing yourself aging, is not really for everybody.
However, knowing that this blog is rarely seen by others except by myself, I can confidently post my slowly decaying process without hesitation.
So, here's my 10 Year Challenge post hoping I can make it through the next ten years still in one piece!