Aging

I must agree with Tim O’Brien when he says that people never change throughout the course of their lives. Though some things might be different due to age or experience but by an overall view, people are always the same.
I too can relate to looking at old photographs and feeling a connection to the child I was then and the child I still am. In old photographs I am a timid little child afraid of people I do not know to well. I was even timid around people in my family and the people I call friends. Shyness never fades away. Sure my mother no longer combs my hair or picks out cute little outfits for me, but I have the same childish smile. My hair is darker and I am much taller, but I still sing to myself in the shower. Some things never change. I still like to be held and comforted. Nervousness still makes my stomach ache. I still keep to my self.
I believe that when I am forty I will still be this way. I will ask my wife to hold me and comfort me. I will learn more songs to sing in the shower. And I will still be hesitant to meet new people. I am not afraid to deny this. These characteristics have gotten me through my first seventeen years of life and I think they will stick with me for another seventeen or thirty-four years.
Though we might change physical, our childish emotional and psychological characteristics are always somewhere in our minds.