Evolution @ 12:48 AM

It's unfortunate that due to the parameters of time, we are unable to witness extreme evolution before our eyes. Wouldn't it be most absolutely mind-blowing to witness a progression of geographical, astronomical, scientific normalities and abnormalities spanning millions and billions of years?

There are, however, "evolutions" most apparent to us that happen as we look into the mirror from day to day and year to year.
I've dressed up emo, punk, retro, posh, prep, and plain lazy. I've dyed, cut, grown, twisted, braided, corn-rowed, pigtailed, bunned my hair; applied and re-applied, removed, caked on make-up and when stripped of all of this, I will look the same.

The same. The same Vannalyn, surely, aged with time, but the same round faced, thick-lipped, dark-eyed blend of palette of my mom's gene, my dad's gene, of the same Mitochondrial Eve that we share. The mix of DPI's that I see printed on pictures, or reflected by mirrors of myself are mine.

The best of all? I am witness to my own evolution!

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