Time changes us all.

I recently saw a meme online about a man who began studying science and physics and then continued for years. There were two photos of him: one from when he first started and another from years later.

The first photo was clean and well-groomed, but in the second, he appeared tattered, with an untrimmed face and uncombed hair.

So the meme's basic idea was that the man became so committed to a cause that he no longer cared about his appearance.

I remember spending hours in a saloon trying to get the right haircut. I trimmed my goatee and looked nice, but since COVID, I have grown oversized beards, hardly go to the barber anymore, and even when I did, I would have to start looking like a semi-crazy man before I realized it was time to get a cut.

Yesterday, I was looking for an important document to complete some KYC when I came across an old passport. I took it out, checked it, and noticed how plump and fine the picture reminded me of 5 to 7 years ago.

I could not believe I was in that picture. I focused on the waves in the hair, the skin tone and color, and when I looked at myself now, I looked like a complete joke in comparison to what I saw on that passport.

First, after COVID, I stopped shaving my beards, and when I lost my brother, I stopped going to the barbershop altogether. I stopped buying moisturizers, and I believe my face shrank and I lost weight.

What we feel, what is going on around us, and how we react to it all influence how we look.

There are people who can not go without getting manicures and pedicures, and then they develop kidney problems or have a major accident and become a ghost of their former selves; they can not even take a bath, eat well, are depressed all the time, and it does not matter how they look.

I saw a lady who developed a type of myloema, possibly from ear cancer, and after a few months of moving from one hospital to another, she shrank in size and was no longer as plump or attractive. Unfortunately, she died from the condition.

Humans are like lions; we are fine and beautiful in our prime, but we face unexpected circumstances that alter our course. Every stage of our lives is fleeting, so we can not rule anything out. This is why we are unable to say what we can and cannot do.

Obviously, life can happen and we become people we did not intend to be. A minor shift in our trajectory causes us to change and adapt.

Being poor, rich, sick, broken, repentant, or depressed can all have a significant impact on our lives. This is why a shift in the state of mind can change the stability of our lives; it is like a kayak being pummeled by a storm.

For example, people's behavior when they are rich or poor does not reflect their true selves. We do not have real selves. We are like sponges, soaking up whatever liquid is in front of us, adapting, changing, and becoming something else to meet the challenges that life throws at us.

There is no such thing as stability because we cannot control everything in our lives; we are always one second away from discovering something we did not know before: either good, or bad

Obviously, many people are fortunate not to face uncertainty, but there are those who must constantly adapt in life, particularly because life has become a thunder dome for them, throwing countless dodge balls at them.

We are not set in stone, as much as we would like to believe otherwise; there is nothing more fleeting than the stages of a person's life.

Today, I went to the barbershop and noticed how long my facial hair was. More than 60% of my face was already covered in hair, which I would not have allowed in the past.

Nobody knows what they will become tomorrow; sometimes we can only hope to remain the people we want to be because life happens and you are living in a situation that you could not have imagined before. Be humble and prayerful .