there was booth at a carnival where for a buck or two, a guy would carve a fresh apple to look exactly like the person, then lacquered it
and he told them that if they set the apple out and let it dry, it would show them what they would look like when they got old
a guy and his wife i knew did this, and in a matter of weeks, the once realistic likenesses had shriveled into grotesque caricatures
the thing of it is, he and his wife both aged prematurely, and while the rest of us still retained most of our youthful appearance
he and his wife both turned into exactly the shriveled apple carvings at a very early age
be careful of frivolous things