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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#2 160 Years Of Foot Traffic Over The Step Into My Local Pub
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#3 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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#4 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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#5 About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots
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#6 This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
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#7 1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
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#8 30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy
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#9 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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#10 Brickwork By The Sea
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#11 One Of My Kids Left A Shoe Outside
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#12 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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#13 This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use
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#14 My Hands After Washing The Dishes For 20 Minutes
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#15 My Teal Post-Its Turned Green While I Was Out Of The Office For 15 Months
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#16 Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised
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#17 The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces
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#18 Gorilla Nose And Nips
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#19 The Air Filter I Just Took Out Of My Lawnmower vs. The One I Replaced It With
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#20 My Dad’s Tree Is Swallowing His Thermometer
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#21 This Tube Of Toothpaste Discolored Of Being By The Sun For Years
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#22 Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use
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#23 Found This At My Local Pharmacy
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#24 The Rain Melted The Shells Off The Exposed M&M's I Found In A Parking Lot
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#25 I Found This Leaf With Only It's 'Veins' Remaining
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#26 A 39-Year-Old Fan Which Turns 40 Tomorrow
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#27 This Raw Hotdog Someone Stuck On My Vans Antenna Nearly 2 Years Ago Is Skinny But Still Going Strong
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#28 A Tree Trunk With A Silver Kennedy 1/2 Dollar Coin
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#29 Bathrooms At My Engineering University
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#30 The Counter At This Truck Stop
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#31 Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation
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#32 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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#33 Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
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#34 Old 3ds Found With Erosion And Barnacles Found While Diving
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#35 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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#36 My Girlfriend Said You Guys Would Like This And I'm Not Sure Why
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#37 Basketball I Got 5 Years Ago vs. Basketball I Got Today
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#38 This Tree Eating A Postbox
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#39 60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle
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#40 My Neighbors Have An Old Chair With Plants Growing Over It
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#41 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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#42 Faded Sign From The "War On Drugs" Era
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#43 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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#44 Well-Pet Ducks
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#45 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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#46 Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick
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#47 This Radiator Underneath A Hand Dryer In A Pub In Northern England
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#48 This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock
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#49 Three Years Ago I Hid A Golden Money Egg For An Easter Egg Hunt But The Egg Was Never Found... Until Now
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#50 7 Year Old Fast Food. Noticed At A Doctor's Office Today
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#51 New Yoda vs. 2-Years-Old Yoda
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#52 Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii
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#53 100-Year-Old Logging Truck, Abandoned And Overgrown By The Trees It Once Helped Cut Down (Lynn Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
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#54 My Grandmother Has Kept Her Elementary School Lunch Box In Nearly Pristine Condition For Over 70 Years
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#55 My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since
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#56 A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt
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#57 The Spot Where Everyone Always Waits For The Elevator
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#58 This Guy Dancing At The Same Place For Weeks
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#59 The Grooves Left By The Drop Rods On The Exit Gates Of The Carousel At The Henry Ford Museum
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#60 4months Of A Sleep Guard. Never Thought I Used To Grind My Teeth
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#61 The Wear Around Salon Seat
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#62 Old Ice Pack Sprung A Leak, Had To Get A New One
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#63 Climbing Brush, About 8 Years Of Use (Bottom) vs. No Use (Top)
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#64 Progression Of A Broom At A Machine Shop
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#65 Years Of People Touching The Map At The "You Are Here" Spot
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#66 This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film
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#67 I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design
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#68 Wear-And-Tear On Playground Monkeybars Decreases As The Distance Increases
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#69 Gentlemen
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#70 The Difference Between Brand New Teeth And 800 Hours Of Digging
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#71 I Found An Old Candy Dispenser With Melted Skittles
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#72 These Hand Prints In A Cave In Southern Utah
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#73 The Cracks In My Screen Protector
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#74 This Jigsaw Has Sat On My Coffee Table For So Long It Fused Into A Flexible Mat
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#75 Dug Up A Very Old Orange Crush Can In My Garden Yesterday
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#76 The Sticker On My High School Hat I’ve Had For 10 Years Fell Off Showing The Original Color
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#77 Does This Count? Highlighter After A Week Of Nonstop Studying
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#78 My Husband Bought Me A New Uno Deck To Replace My 20-Year-Old Deck
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#79 Boyfriend Bought Me A New Alpaca (Left) After I Slept With The Old One (Right) Every Night For 6 Years
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#80 Penny That Was Stuck In My Washer For Years
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#81 The Patch On My Jeans Came Off Revealing Its Original Color
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#82 The New And Old Pallet Jacks At My Work
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#83 This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine
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#84 I Think It Was About Time For New Tires On My RC Car
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#85 IKEA Dish Soap Dispenser Tip
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#86 You Nose Its Been Touched A Lot
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#87 My Old Skate Shoes vs. My Buddy's New Ones
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#88 Finally Got A New Pair Of Work Gloves. 2 Year Gap
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#89 Brand New Stored In Closet vs. 25 Years Of Use
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#90 We Found This Almost Identical Jacket Outside An Op Shop Today
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#91 Finally Got Around To Replacing The Casters On My 1950s Wooden Bankers Chair
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#92 This Diary Full Of Stickers/Papers My Boyfriend And I Collected Since May 2020
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#93 The Sun Has Bleached The Corner Of The Carpet In This Shop Window Over Time
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#94 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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#95 My Friend’s Childhood Towel After 20 Years
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#96 Here's The Patina On A Knife I Made A Year Ago
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#97 What UV Light Does To Wooden Floors When A Rug Is Placed In The Middle Of A Room
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#98 This Box Of Crayons At The Corner Gas Station Lost Most Of Its Color
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#99 I Have An Old Basketball In My Backyard That Has The Space Jam Logo On It
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#100 New vs. 3-Year-Old Cat Scratching Post
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#101 Plastic Keyboard Cover At Work. I Work At A Dentist's Practice In Germany. Tooth = Zahn, Hence The Z
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#102 My 10 Year Old Rubik's vs. One That Just Arrived
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#103 Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer
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#104 My Laptop Keyboard Protectors, 6 Years Apart
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#105 Well Worn Wooden Bench
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#106 Manhole Cover, New vs. Old
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#107 This Death Trap My Wife Calls An Oven Mitt
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#108 Before And After 18 Months Of Covid Lockdowns
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#109 Handrail In A Stairwell At Work
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#110 Some More Well Worn Brakes
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#111 Old vs. New Leather Phone Case
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#112 Greasy Head Stains In Doctors Waiting Room
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#113 Old Air Purifier Hepa Filter On The Left vs. Brand New One On The Right
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