I’m 38 years old.
When I look in the mirror, I sometimes remember being in my painting class in college and trying to do a self-portrait. It was not one of my more successful works. I could never get my own face right – the angles eluded me somehow.
When I look in the mirror, I don’t see myself as having changed all that much from that 20 year old struggling with paint and brushes. The lines on my forehead are a bit more defined, but otherwise I don’t think I look all that different. The hair is longer than it was then, and it’s bottle-auburn shot through with bits of grey, not blonde. But the face is the same.
I wonder, will I still look in the mirror when I’m 70 and be able to see that same girl?