{"id":21140,"date":"2017-05-06T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=21140"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:55:47","slug":"you-dont-ever-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2017\/05\/06\/you-dont-ever-change\/","title":{"rendered":"“You Don’t Ever Change”"},"content":{"rendered":"

or “You Still Look the Same”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Your humble host photographs himself in a mirror in January 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a result of my giant office cleanout project, I have posted on social media a number of photos of Adans (people from Ada, Oklahoma, for you out-of-towners) and their neighbors who I photographed in the 1990s and know in the twentyteens. Some of them look very familiar, but some of them are almost unrecognizable. Why is this?<\/p>\n

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One thing I feel certain helps me feel and look young is my diet, which I have tried to keep healthy with, among other things, being a vegetarian since 1989.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the same time, I felt obligated to post a few images of myself from that same era. Almost to a man, people tell me, “You don’t ever change,” “You look the same now as you did then,” or “You never age.”<\/p>\n

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This is the greyest I ever let my beard get. As you can see, it ages me unkindly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The truth, of course, is that I have aged, but not as dramatically as some of my friends and neighbors. How much of this is luck, and for how much can I take credit?<\/p>\n