The sidewalks are watching me think about you
A while ago, I was searching through my photo albums for some pictures I wanted to include in this scrapbook I have to make for school. As I looked at the pictures of my younger self, it occured to me that in spite of the passage of time my face has pretty much stayed the same. I still look like a kid. I still have the same grin, and my eyes still slant up ever so slightly when I smile. The only difference is that I had smaller eyes and that my face was completely devoid of zits. I want to be a six year old again.
It’s so weird how a lot of the pretty girls I know from school looked so dorky when they were kids. Is that some sort of like, law of the human body or something? That anyone who looks cute as children will look awful as adolescents, and that anyone who looks plain as children will become goddesses as teenagers?
Looking through my albums made me feel a little sad, particularly when I saw the pictures of Celina and me when we were at the States (choir tour). 1998 was the last time I ever saw her, and although we tried to keep in touch we both lost contact after a while. Of all the people who had come and gone from my life, Celina is the one I miss the most. I still think of her a lot and I wonder how she’s doing, what she looks like right now (I heard she got braces), and if her mom still watches over her like a hawk. I’m hoping that maybe we can be friends again when I go to college; she lives really near Ateneo. I can still remember how to get to her house and one of these days I’m going to visit her, just to say hi.
Celina and me, twelve years old, on the streets of Universal Studios. Best friends forever. But forever is such a long time.
I stupidly forgot the camera, but this is one of the placards we used for the school protest rally on March 6 .
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i was searching through my baby photos for my school yearbook the other day… i looked like a fool then and i look like a fool now lol.
you know, I had that theory too! fat kids turn out to be slim teens/adults and stuff like that. heheh
omigod, i looked totally different in high school. . . I was short, skinny, and i had braces. ICK!!
Hehe, I had braces during my pre-teen and early teenage years. Sometimes I think I looked better when I had them.
yeah, some people look better with braces… dunno why. anyway, i looked quite pudgy when i was a kid!
i actually want to get braces for some reason and i have been wanting to get them for quite a long time now. if only they didn’t cost so much… your braces looked good on you! =)
i had the same theory you and victor had! i think that some of my friends that looked rather plain a few years back actually look better now. ahh, puberty.