I just remembered something this Thursday, after my fingerprints were being taken. I am not a teenager anymore, I’m now in my early twenties.
For me, this means a lot. I finally go out of my awkward teenage years, and entered the slightly less awkward realm of being twenty-something (twenty at the moment actually). I remember, that my photos started to look very awkward after the age of 12 or so. And not just vacation photos, but mainly passport and official documents photos. For a long time, I was too thin, somewhat hunched, spotty, etc…
This was not a good thing. even as an 18-year-old, when I had my TU Delft picture taken (for the campus card), I looked like a mass murderer (I was quite tanned and my skin was greasy and all shiny). Recently, I had a new campus card made, because I lost the first one. There, I am smiling, looking like I always wanted to. Even my driver’s license photo sucks a bit, because I was 19 at the time.
So they took my picture and fingerprints. I am having a new passport made (what did you think?). I saw the passport picture and it was surprisingly very good. I was mucho satisfied with it. And that’s all because I ain’t a teenager no more. See, if I were 19 in that picture, I would have looked really horrible, but at this early stage, aging is actually something good.
Some people are good-looking through their entire lives, some only in their childhood. For me, I looked good as kid, but my teenage years were awful. It’s never going to be great, I’ll never look like George Clooney, but I certainly ain’t going back to that teenage nightmare. Yes…
Peter S.
