I still feel completely overwhelmed when looking at old photos.

Last night I was writing a paper and was feeling a little nostalgic so I went to browse through some of my friend's old Facebook albums. I'm male and I get extremely anxious when I think a picture of me is coming up or if there is a possibility of a picture of me being in the album. In this one particular picture it was over 3 years ago when I was 17. I was wearing glasses; they were relatively small and black-rimmed. I thought they were nice at the time but they did not work well with my nose making me look like I was wearing the Groucho nose and glasses. Someone made a comment to me about it once and I shrugged it off. It still got to me. Also, when this picture was taken I was becoming really self-conscious about the little hairs connecting my eyebrows (unibrow I think they call it) and took someone's suggestion and went to a place to get it waxed. Little did I know that it would be extremely noticeable and my eyebrows looked all waxed/shaven/weirdly shaped in these pictures. Nothing masculine/guyish at all. Looking at these pictures I cringe and it starts bringing back/confirming a deep hatred I had/have towards myself.

Today, I do not wear glasses I wear contacts. Also, I pluck modestly which gives me a much better result. I'm about to head out of the door for class but I'm very depressed and just needed to say something. Why the hell was I/am I so stupid? Even my stylistic decisions today, will I regret them in a year's time or more? I used to wear my Dad's old jeans which were a couple to a few inches too big along the waste but I liked them and wore them with a belt to hold them up because they were very comfortable. Looking at pictures I realized how much of a moron I looked like wearing them. Anyway, thanks for listening. Any comments will be appreciated.

Posted Nov 3, 2010, 2:06 PM UTC

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