22 examples of frightening and inspiring traces of time

Time spares no one. And although its inexorable course cannot be seen with the eyes, if you are lucky, you can capture it in a photograph.

"In 1992 I came to this place, and in 2019 I retired. Between these pictures — 27 years of work"

Worn piano keys

"I used to have brown eyes, but in 2008 they started to change color, and now they are green"

True love. 30 years have passed, and feelings are still strong!

"For 15 years I compulsively gnawed the skin from my index finger. Because of this, a solid scar has formed on the finger, and there is no fingerprint on it"

"My parents planted this saguaro cactus 30 years ago"

Jay and Silent Bob are 25 years apart

"I wore the ring without taking it off for 8 years, and now I took it off — and on the very first day, the strip of white skin on my finger left by the ring burned"

17 years of friendship

The inscription on the zoo's diagram "You are here" has worn away from frequent touches

"The threshold of my brother's boathouse has worn out by several centimeters over the years: after all, it was trampled very actively"

By the way the elevator buttons have worn out, you can see which floor people most often do not want to walk to"

"The basketball I started playing with five years ago and the one I bought yesterday"

"Mom wore these sandals for 13 years. The prints of her feet on the soles will never be erased now"

"This penny fell into the washing machine a few years ago. Only today I found it"

"Bicycle pedals are quite clearly imprinted on my sneakers"

"On top is a keyboard that I have used for several years, on the bottom is a new one"

"This site is many years old. During this time, the children trampled her to holes"

"The age difference is one and a half years"

"The left flip—flops are from the old pair, the right one is from the new one"

"I peeled off the sticker from an old school cap and remembered what color it was originally"

"After school, I was interested in special effects for movies and made casts for experiments. Now I can appreciate how noticeably the shape of my ears has changed over 35 years."