American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once said: “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” Let’s explore that tail, shall we? It’s not an easy task, but Bored Panda put together a list of photos that capture this elusive silhouette quite well.
From a meatball that has spent decades in epoxy to 1,800-year-old Roman leather sandals, the things you’re going to see below have all faced the biggest battle in the universe — the passage of time — but took different wounds. Continue scrolling to compare them and if you want more of the same, fire up our similar publications here, here, and here.
#1 The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea
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#2 Shout Out To Lodge For Replacing My 14 Year Old Dutch Oven Because The Enamel Chipped. No Hassles, Just A Free Replacement In The Mail One Week After Contacting Them
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#3 My Grandmother Has Kept Her Elementary School Lunch Box In Nearly Pristine Condition For Over 70 Years
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#4 I Inherited My Grandma’s Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
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#5 The Knife At The Left Was Used By A Butcher For 5 Years Straight. The One At The Right Is The Exact Same Knife, But Brand New
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#6 This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
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#7 Brickwork By The Sea
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#8 My Work ID Has Been In Its Plastic Holder For So Long That It’s Imprinted This Ghostly Image Of My Face
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#9 My Neighbors Have An Old Chair With Plants Growing Over It
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#10 I Found This Leaf With Only It’s ‘Veins’ Remaining
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#11 The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces
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#12 My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since
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#13 160 Years Of Foot Traffic Over The Step Into My Local Pub
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#14 This Tree Eating A Postbox
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#15 This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock
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#16 A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt
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#17 I Went Into The Office For The First Time Since March 2020 And Found The Kiwi I Left In My Desk
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#18 You Can Tell Where People Tend To Line Up At This Brooklyn Hardware Store By Where The Linoleum Tile Has Been Worn Away To Reveal The Original Ceramic
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#19 Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation
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#20 I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design
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#21 About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots
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#22 Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
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#23 Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised
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#24 Great Grandmother’s Potato Peeling Knife Still Used By My Grandmother In Her Late 80’s. She Says Her Mother Used It When She Was A Child
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#25 Well-Pet Ducks
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#26 Bathrooms At My Engineering University
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#27 My Nana Has Been Using The Same Deck Of Cards For 10 Years And They’ve All Grooved To Her Hand Placement During Shuffling
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#28 100-Year-Old Logging Truck, Abandoned And Overgrown By The Trees It Once Helped Cut Down (Lynn Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
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#29 1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
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#30 This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film
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#31 Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer
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#32 A Tree Trunk With A Silver Kennedy 1/2 Dollar Coin
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#33 These Hand Prints In A Cave In Southern Utah
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#34 Faded Sign From The “War On Drugs” Era
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#35 30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy
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#36 60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle
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#37 Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick
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#38 Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use
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#39 Progression Of A Broom At A Machine Shop
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#40 This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine
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#41 This Guy Dancing At The Same Place For Weeks
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#42 Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii
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#43 A 39-Year-Old Fan Which Turns 40 Tomorrow
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#44 My Dad’s Tree Is Swallowing His Thermometer
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#45 This Pumpkin Got Tossed In The Chicken Run Last November But Other Animals Ate The Insides, Leaving A Fairly Intact Shell
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#46 Wear Marks In The Floor Of A Repurposed Levi’s Denim Factory. Someone Spent Their Whole Life Working And Standing In This Spot. Lamy’s Building, Sedalia, MO
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#47 My Teal Post-Its Turned Green While I Was Out Of The Office For 15 Months
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#48 Basketball I Got 5 Years Ago vs. Basketball I Got Today
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#49 Found This At My Local Pharmacy
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#50 This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use
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