Back in November, I wrote about noticing a picture from my past while visiting my parents. While at my parents’ house for Easter, I decided to scan a copy of it. So now, you can all see how incredibly good I looked back in the Summer of 1991.
I’m actually quite pleased with how well the scan came out. I commented to my parents that if I had made the printed copy I made the same size as the original, I could’ve just about swapped them without anyone noticing.
One thing I did note about the picture is my eyes. I didn’t go in for the second surgery (the reasonably successful one) to correct my lazy eye until my late twenties. So if you look at this picture closely enough, you can make out where they were misaligned at the time. It’s something I never thought about back then unless someone asked me about it. But now, it just seems so strange. It makes me wonder how much it actually did effect my feelings about myself on a subconscious level at the time.
I can still see a lot of myself in this picture, really. I have a receding hairline now, and my stomach is considerably larger, though I’m slowly working on changing the latter. (I think I’m on the brink of dropping another waist size.)
And for anyone who wants to know, the tee shirt says, “In the market for a new brain.” It was my favorite shirt back then. Of course, that was also back when a lot of my classmates would ask if they could have my old one. 😉
Awww….how old were you then?
I turned seventeen a month or two before the picture was taken.
Just a baby then. 😉 I can see why you were crushin’ on yourself.
Nothing makes me feel so old as seeing pictures of myself in high school…it’s so weird. My high school just won their first state basketball title since I was in high school…then when I read the headlines they were talking about how that was 20 years ago, and I was like WTF!? 20 years?! When did that happen?
Oops, darn it, double posted again. Sorry.
Its about time you posted again! 🙂
You look adorable in this pic. I was wondering what the shirt said so thanks for answering that before I had to ask.
In the summer of ’91 I was a new mom with a 6 month old son.
Good for you for dropping another waist size – very inspirational
Erin: Thanks! And yeah, my mother acts all shocked when I point out that I graduated from high school almost 16 years ago.
Barbara: Hey! I’ve been busy. That and I’ve had trouble deciding what to post about lately.
And I figured at least one person would want to know what the tee shirt said. After all, I would’ve wanted to know! And man, I miss that shirt!
The shorts, too! They were the most comfortable shorts I ever owned! Too bad I’ve never found a pair like them since.
You were and still are a cutie, Jarred – besides – you have one of the kindest hearts of any person I know!