BUT A POOR REFLECTION: Twenty years later

Monday, January 15, 2007

Twenty years later

I had to supply two pictures for an interview, a picture from my study years and a more recent one. So this is what happens to your face in 20 years time... (pic left is from 1987). But I'm still smiling.

(Look at it this way, getting older is better than the alternative…)
Pic left © Rob Koster, pic right © Suzanne Obdam

4 comments:

Vicki said...: I'll agree! Getting older is definitely better than...not, uh...getting older. You're still young yet... there's lots to do and enjoy!

Even though 20 years has passed, it's still very apparent that it's you! Good photos.; 1/15/2007 9:58 pm
Art said...: It's true, it's so obviously YOU in both pics.

And you still look nice.

(I mean that in a totally friendly, heterosexual, Christian brotherhood sort of way:)

And I agree, older is certainly better than the alternative!; 1/16/2007 10:29 am
Carolanne said...: LOL Art.
Paul, you still look the same, a little older maybe but that's not a bad thing. :); 1/17/2007 12:33 pm
Paul said...: Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 2 Cor. 4:16
Thanks for the encouraging comments, friends!; 1/19/2007 9:29 am

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