Monday, January 31, 2011

Ten Years

I hate the picture. I mean, I know you are supposed to hate it, and universally it is like a 'let's hate our pictures' club, but I really hate it. He made me take off my glasses so there wouldn't be a glare. Today I looked better with my glasses on, I just know it. It was a lose-lose situation. 

I am talking about my new passport picture. The one I will have for the next ten years. 

Ten years. It feels so final. Ten more birthdays. A husband, children, a job, a house. Who knows what will happen in the coming ten years? It is weird to think that this picture, and the passport I have yet to get will be with me for that long.

A picture is a moment frozen in time. G-d willing I will look different by the time the next picture comes around.

Here's to a great ten years for everyone. Health, and happiness, and lots of good things.
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5 comments:

  1. DevorahFebruary 2, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    Hope the next ten years brings many good things iyh!

    Ten years certainly feels like a very long time...

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  2. ESFebruary 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    Only because it fits so well

    Ten Years Gone - By Messers Page and Plant:

    Then as it was, then again it will be
    An' though the course may change sometimes
    Rivers always reach the sea
    Flyin' skys of fortune, each have separate ways
    On the wings of maybe, downy birds of prey
    Kind of makes me feel sometimes, didn't have to go
    But as the eagle leaves the nest, it's got so far to go

    Changes fill my time, baby, that's alright with me
    In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be

    Did you ever really need somebody, And really need 'em bad
    Did you ever really want somebody, The best love you ever had
    Do you ever remember me, baby, did it feel so good
    'Cause it was just the first time, And you knew you would

    Do your eyes not sparkle, Senses growing keen
    Tastin' love along the way, See your feathers preen
    Kind of makes makes me feel sometimes, Didn't have to go
    We are eagles of one nest, The nest is in our soul

    Fixin' in my dreams with great surprise to me
    Never thought I'd see your face the way it used to be
    Oh darlin', oh darlin'

    I'm never gonna leave you. I never gonna leave
    Holdin' on, ten years gone
    Ten years gone, holdin' on, ten years gone

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  3. MushkieFebruary 3, 2011 at 7:37 PM

    Interesting thought...my next 10 years will be ridiculously weird, so many changes, but you know what they say - travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo :D

    And I wasn't allowed to smile in mine. B"H for learner's permits.

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  4. AltieFebruary 3, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    Mushkie, you are right. Traveling always makes me feel ugh.

    If only smiling was allowed. I smile at the passport officials anyway to try to transmit to them that I am an innocent citizen and not a terrorist. For some reason I don't think smiling helps much.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    I love traveling! ( as in the actual traveling part), so i'll be smiling when they compare me to my passport picture. Which is good, since they let me smile in my latest passport pic. Maybe Californian passport offices are just more civil.

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