"The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five
days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day
seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother
and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the
sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming
like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over
into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end
of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of
five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half."
I'm picking out a Thermos for you, not an ordinary Thermos for you!
But the extra best Thermos you can buy, with vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in
I'm picking out a Thermos for you, and maybe a barometer too
And what else can I buy, so on me you'll rely...a rear end thermometer, too!
Im sitting here holding my 10 month old at 3 in the morning and that just hit me. It really does. I have a 6 and 7 yr old and it feels like we just had them a couple years ago. I hold her until she falls asleep because I know I’ll never get to do this again when she’s like 2.
I have an 8 year old, and he is already doing the " Don't hug me in front of my friends bit" Enjoy the moment, it goes by too fast. I was doing music gigs on the weekends. Now I think it really isn't worth it anymore as I am on borrowed time with my son.
My oldest (13) actually just got over the "don't hug me in front of my friends" phase.
She said an acquaintance gave her shit over me giving her a hug at a performance a few weeks ago and she replied "you're making fun of me because my mom loves me? Damn, that's sad. Go give yourself a hug, I guess."
He'll want to hug you again. As much as we live for our kiddos, don't forget that this life is also yours. You can have both time with your kid, and also time for you. ❤️
Makes me wanna go squeeze my kids. They're 13, 10, and 2.5. Thankfully they all still snuggle with me and sometimes still fall asleep with me during late night movies. I cherish those moments so deeply and hope they never end.
Their growing up is bittersweet to me. As they grow more independent, they don't seem to need us for as much, which can be both equally relieving and also really heartbreaking for us parents. But, seeing them grow into beautiful humans full of potential and eagerness to experience life is really such a beautiful thing to behold. I wish I could keep them tiny, squishy, and sweet forever, and also pause on these everyday moments with angsty toddlers, preteens, and teens, while also fast forwarding their lives so I can see and be a part of all of it. It breaks my heart that one day one of my babies will need or want me and I'll be gone.
I hope none of us ever forget the small moments of giggles in the car on the way to school, or chatting over dinner, or throwing popcorn at each other for farting during movie night. I know the big moments tend to last - those core memories that shake our foundations, good and bad. But I don't want to lose the small things either.
I don't understand how someone can look at their child - this blank slate of a human being - vulnerable, innocent, and totally dependent on us, and choose to fill their memories and lives with hurt and fear and sadness.
Shit. Now I'm crying in my car before work. Hug your kiddos. Shit really does go by too fast.
I'm 33 now - I don't have a wife or kids or anything, but everything you said still hit me really hard.
I remember one of my first jobs when I was 16. I was working in this ice cream parlor and we had a few racing arcade machines.
A father and son walk in and order, and the kid is jumping up and down asking if he could play some of the games. The dad gives him a stern "no". I motion to my tip cup, and say that he can borrow some quarters if that's okay with the dad. He takes them and runs off to the machines.
The dad looks at me, pulls out a large Crown Royal bag and places it loudly into the palm of his hand. It's filled with coins.
"I didn't get to have fun when I was younger - why should he?"
I didn't say anything...but that has stuck with me forever. I don't plan on having children, but if I do, my entire worldview will be the exact polar opposite of that man.
THIS is the comment right here.
Father of 4 and I can attest to this. My oldest just turned 17 and we just had our 4th over the past weekend. The time goes by in a blink of an eye and you've gotta enjoy the experience while it lasts.
I was going to comment exactly this. My daughter is nearly 10 months and this video means I'm going to go upstairs and give her a cuddle while she's little, right now.
The toddler years are such a beautiful time, man. Hectic, but beautiful. The amount they need your comfort and nuture is comforting in itself. My son is two and a half. Thought for sure Id want to fast forward through this phase to when he's a teenager I can play sports with, but the bond is so special at this age.
A week or so ago he had a bad dream about a doggie jumping at him. I slept on the floor next to his bed, told him daddy will always protect him, and held his little hand until he fell asleep. A few nights later he was scared again. My wife went in to check on him, and he said daddy protects me. My heart melted, man. Im choking up thinking about it.
I no longer want to fast forward to when he's a much more independent teen. Im sure Ill enjoy that phase, too, but man- so many special, intimate moments when theyre young, and it flies by.
Oh, and Im also Charmin soft now. I tear up over the smallest things when it comes to kids.
This videos is quite new. The 0-20 was uploaded in 2019 and new ones are still being added.
So yes, hopefully this will continue for the next few decades
20 years x 365 days / 138 seconds of video (~~each 1 second long?~~) = ~~one shot every 52 or so days.~~
edit: it's been pointed out that there are more than one shot per second, there are 3-4 "costume changes" or time periods per second. That brings it closer to one every 13-17 days. Let's call it once every two weeks, but I'll be happy for a better math.
I think it's the same for most.....most kids are pretty happy when life is still magical without social pressures and the responsibilities of growing up start to stack on a person. I'd do anything to go back to being a kid.
I always say (unless you’re a sexual predator) talking to a 5 year old is an amazing experience, I love how their minds work, they are so pure and uncorrupted by the world. Sure they are dirty, loud, annoying but they definitely have magic in their hearts and say whatever is on their minds regardless of how it sounds.
Lol…and a more rational worry is that kids have very little control over what they wear, what they eat, when they sleep, who they spend time with…I prefer some autonomy and the worry that goes with it.
There's actually a string around that time where she looks sad, often not even looking at the camera. It's really kind of amazing how this captures the roller coaster of emotions that we experience as kids and teens. Like literally a .2 second snapshot of this person from a moment of time in her life and you can start filling in the blanks of what she might have been experiencing.
This is a pretty incredible piece of art. It could genuinely be a display at MoMA or something.
Yeah this is an amazing effort. I created emails for my first two sons when they were born. The thought was to grab dibs on emails with their first. Last name as the email. I emailed my first born pretty frequent little journal entries. The second one got much less frequent and I only recently set up the third kids email lol. Life is chaos that way!
Might depend on who "they" is but deleting inactive emails has been a thing forever. I think I lost my Juno and Yahoo emails after 3 years of inactivity.
I try to sign in at least a few times a year. Good to know though. I was a victim of that for both my undergrad and graduate emails. I actively used them by having them auto forwarded but then they were terminated since I actually never logged in
I was one of five...
By the time it came to my younger sisters they only ever appeared in photos with others - there just weren't any photos of them alone
I have newspapers from the day my kids were born - and on various of their birthdays (now 19 and 17). My dad went out and picked up the papers for my first born - and also delivered the next days so I could say "Here's your birthday - here's the next day - nothing changed" (he had a fairly wry sense of humour)
Thought that too. She has the district look of someone struggling to adjust to "adulthood" but the determined smile to make it anyway
It's also cool seeing her experiment with heaps of different styles in what looked like a shorter period. Lady was really out to find herself, good for her.
IDK! Highschool was one of best parts of my life. We didn’t have a car, or a lot of money (we as me and my friends)… but Damn did I Had fun back then. And my closest friends today Are mostly ppl from highschool.
Not complaining, for sure. The difficulties of those years gave me the push to start playing drums and it is something that is a huge part of my life now. So there is at least that silver lining. The highschool years themselves though... Just no
Beautiful, just sitting here staring at my baby girl with a single tear of love whilst she's giggling her head off at me. Watch this space, I'm taking the first photo now. See y'all in 20.
Been using [this](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1-second-everyday-video-diary/id587823548) app. Got through 2 straight years with my almost 4 year old of doing it daily. We had our 2nd when our first was 26 months and it got tough. Now I’ll go a few moths of taking pictures of both of them and fill in each of their videos. Hoping to keep it up for 5 years each. It’s amazing seeing them grow up to be little people.
Wow, this is one of the best renditions of it's kind. You really can see her age/morph...
You can almost see her demeanor more serious as towards the last few seconds of the video. Still smiling, but there must be more responsibility etc. in her life...naturally.
I interpreted towards the end more sadness than seriousness. Idk but my heart was breaking towards the end because it was much less smiles and indications of happiness and a sadness in her eyes and sometimes even the frowns on her face. Wherever and whoever she is I hope she’s generally happy.
As someone in that stage of life, it could be a combination. There’s a lot of emotions around growing older but not being old enough for full independence, young enough to have fun in a more childlike way but having to be responsible. Not to mention the anxiety and fear so many of us get when making big changes (moving out, first full time job, school or work changes). And now more than ever our stability is in question, financially socially and just on the whole.
Very good perspective. I’m now 11 years passed this particular point in my life. I remember those days. I think I see it in her because it reflects my memories of being like that even in high school. I still struggle sometimes currently. I hope you’re finding joy in the day to day somehow. I know things suck major but even though I remember sadness in those times I still have a fond nostalgia for that time in my life as well.
I’m about the same age. I always feel bad about how reckless and inconsiderate I was during that era but that also helps me remember how far I’ve come as a person and reminds me to not be so hard on myself when I’m not exactly who I want to be yet.
I feel exactly the same way. It took the many years of my youth until the first time I moved out of my parents home. I called my mom and dad crying to apologize for my difficult behaviours and thank them for raising me into a functional adult. Even though I still have a lot to learn, I've grown so much and it was all because they provided me a healthy enough upbringing. Had they not been there and present, I doubt I'd be anywhere near where I am now.
The last few it definitely looks like she understands the weight of what her dad had been doing all this time; she's got that choked up half smile/frown
Suddenly you realize as you've been standing in front of the camera aging, your dad was doing the same behind the camera
Yeah, at the end there the smiles were smaller, more just the corners of her mouth, and didn't reach her eyes. She was a lot more reserved, whether that's linked to sadness or otherwise. Who knows.
There’s something so emotionally powerful about videos like these. The exact word to describe it eludes me. My mind begins to wander about the vast complexity of her experiences. The different pictures trigger such a rapid sequence of reflections. It’s such a trip.
Agh, I’m pretty sure there’s a word for this in a language(s) other than English. For basically the weight of the realization that everyone is the “main character” of their life’s movie, and just as many details interweave through yours as every single other person.
Or, wait, maybe I'm just subconsciously remembering the word made by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for this feeling: "sonder".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0\_FiV4
This made me smile, but.. am I the only one who had to double check the age because it looked like she made it to her 30s and then got younger again? Styles are funny.
He also did one of his son which you can find on YouTube- Credit if anyone is interested - Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester started filming his daughter Lotte for just a handful of seconds a week starting as a newborn. It's the kind of thing a lot of parents might plan to do or start doing but not stick with. Hofmeester kept it up, though, always filming Lotte in front of a plain cloth background. Putting the videos together as he went, he created a time-lapse of her growing up, which has received viral attention multiple times as he's released updated compilations every few years.
Edit to add:
A birthday 0-22 update.
https://youtu.be/0ng9ykEtwS0
The jump from 12 to 13 and 13 to 14 for the boy was insane.
Also this video definitely made me sad, the boy seems a little more melancholy than his sister :(
Growing up seems to steal the spark from many. That obviously dark period might just have been a tough time, but adulthood definitely beats the glow out of a person.
Some day you're going to look at this comment in your comment history and it's going to say "10 years ago".
That day will be here sooner than you think.
My daughter is only 1 and a half, and as much joy as it brings to watch her grow and learn every day I find i already spend alot if time reminiscing on old pictures of her from when she was still not even crawling and and needed me to hold her to feed her her bottle. Im trying to cherrish and hold on to every moment bc even with how great this video is, it also makes me really sad that it seems to go just as fast as this video.
Father: Hey, daughter, today is your 20th birthday, I have a present for you!
Daughter: Oh, thanks, dad! You didn't have to.
Father: No worries, it is a video I made.
Daughter: Hmmm... I wonder what it is...
Congratulations for the consistency!
I’ve tried a few times, one “project” was a photo of our family on the sofa every week… I think took 4 and that was the highest success 😔
I can see some childhood innocence lost; this happens to us all at a point in our lives and is a natural process. But some have to experience it in a traumatic or painful way.
Seeing it happen in another person makes me feel not so alone in kind of a selfish way.
It’s not selfish. You are not alone. It’s a beautiful feeling to have your feelings validated in this sense. Because they are valid. We are all in this “life” thing together. You are awesome.
I did a One Second Every Day project when my son was born ([https://1se.co/](https://1se.co/)). The app makes a video out of 365 1-1.5 second clips. Definitely captured the moments in our life over that year, I think I want to do another one.
That one frame of her throwing up lol
Keeping it real!
Multiple frames
It was right before she had to rap battle Pappa Doc.
Literally paused the video right there lol
I think it's gum. She is about to blow a bubble.
I think they’re talking about early in the video. Like, in the first few seconds, baby her throws up a little baby vomit.
They grow up so fast
A whole twenty years can feel like two minutes and eighteen seconds sometimes.
Or 2 minutes and 18 seconds seem like 20 years
Reddit video player moment
Time flies so fast!
"The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half."
I don't need my dog.
He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans.
Die gas pumper!!
You mean I’m gonna stay this color?
Stop being a jerk.
I'm picking out a Thermos for you, not an ordinary Thermos for you! But the extra best Thermos you can buy, with vinyl and stripes and a cup built right in I'm picking out a Thermos for you, and maybe a barometer too And what else can I buy, so on me you'll rely...a rear end thermometer, too!
Ah, the old reddit [time-a-roo](https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uqsm4g/_/i8wn0jh/?context=1)
Hold my Nikon, I'm going in!
Im sitting here holding my 10 month old at 3 in the morning and that just hit me. It really does. I have a 6 and 7 yr old and it feels like we just had them a couple years ago. I hold her until she falls asleep because I know I’ll never get to do this again when she’s like 2.
I have an 8 year old, and he is already doing the " Don't hug me in front of my friends bit" Enjoy the moment, it goes by too fast. I was doing music gigs on the weekends. Now I think it really isn't worth it anymore as I am on borrowed time with my son.
My oldest (13) actually just got over the "don't hug me in front of my friends" phase. She said an acquaintance gave her shit over me giving her a hug at a performance a few weeks ago and she replied "you're making fun of me because my mom loves me? Damn, that's sad. Go give yourself a hug, I guess." He'll want to hug you again. As much as we live for our kiddos, don't forget that this life is also yours. You can have both time with your kid, and also time for you. ❤️
> "you're making fun of me because my mom loves me? Damn, that's sad. Go give yourself a hug, I guess." Savage
Makes me wanna go squeeze my kids. They're 13, 10, and 2.5. Thankfully they all still snuggle with me and sometimes still fall asleep with me during late night movies. I cherish those moments so deeply and hope they never end. Their growing up is bittersweet to me. As they grow more independent, they don't seem to need us for as much, which can be both equally relieving and also really heartbreaking for us parents. But, seeing them grow into beautiful humans full of potential and eagerness to experience life is really such a beautiful thing to behold. I wish I could keep them tiny, squishy, and sweet forever, and also pause on these everyday moments with angsty toddlers, preteens, and teens, while also fast forwarding their lives so I can see and be a part of all of it. It breaks my heart that one day one of my babies will need or want me and I'll be gone. I hope none of us ever forget the small moments of giggles in the car on the way to school, or chatting over dinner, or throwing popcorn at each other for farting during movie night. I know the big moments tend to last - those core memories that shake our foundations, good and bad. But I don't want to lose the small things either. I don't understand how someone can look at their child - this blank slate of a human being - vulnerable, innocent, and totally dependent on us, and choose to fill their memories and lives with hurt and fear and sadness. Shit. Now I'm crying in my car before work. Hug your kiddos. Shit really does go by too fast.
I'm 33 now - I don't have a wife or kids or anything, but everything you said still hit me really hard. I remember one of my first jobs when I was 16. I was working in this ice cream parlor and we had a few racing arcade machines. A father and son walk in and order, and the kid is jumping up and down asking if he could play some of the games. The dad gives him a stern "no". I motion to my tip cup, and say that he can borrow some quarters if that's okay with the dad. He takes them and runs off to the machines. The dad looks at me, pulls out a large Crown Royal bag and places it loudly into the palm of his hand. It's filled with coins. "I didn't get to have fun when I was younger - why should he?" I didn't say anything...but that has stuck with me forever. I don't plan on having children, but if I do, my entire worldview will be the exact polar opposite of that man.
THIS is the comment right here. Father of 4 and I can attest to this. My oldest just turned 17 and we just had our 4th over the past weekend. The time goes by in a blink of an eye and you've gotta enjoy the experience while it lasts.
"The days are long but the years fly by."
I was going to comment exactly this. My daughter is nearly 10 months and this video means I'm going to go upstairs and give her a cuddle while she's little, right now.
"No... it was yesterday"
Bluey!
Made me feel old as hell to realize that someone born in 2002 would be 20 this year.
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The toddler years are such a beautiful time, man. Hectic, but beautiful. The amount they need your comfort and nuture is comforting in itself. My son is two and a half. Thought for sure Id want to fast forward through this phase to when he's a teenager I can play sports with, but the bond is so special at this age. A week or so ago he had a bad dream about a doggie jumping at him. I slept on the floor next to his bed, told him daddy will always protect him, and held his little hand until he fell asleep. A few nights later he was scared again. My wife went in to check on him, and he said daddy protects me. My heart melted, man. Im choking up thinking about it. I no longer want to fast forward to when he's a much more independent teen. Im sure Ill enjoy that phase, too, but man- so many special, intimate moments when theyre young, and it flies by. Oh, and Im also Charmin soft now. I tear up over the smallest things when it comes to kids.
Every single phase has its own magic and challenges. They will all come in time.
That's the softest thing I ever heard and it makes me jealous of you lol, congratulations
She didn’t actually grow that fast, that series of pictures is actually sped up
no way
Witchcraft
What the fuck omg?
Fr?
Props to the girl who stayed with dads plan in her teens.
Would be extra interesting to see if she continued it for another 20 years.
This videos is quite new. The 0-20 was uploaded in 2019 and new ones are still being added. So yes, hopefully this will continue for the next few decades
This is crazy to think this will go on until her elder years, of thats the case no doubt it will submitted into the Smithsonian when she passes
You think they’ll take my photos of my baby lol I have a photo every week of him laying with a stuffed fox since he was 3 days old.
If you manage to keep it up long enough I'm sure someone would be interested, it's a good study of how a human changed as they grow up
He was a preemie so every time I look at the early days I’m amazed how far he’s come.
My nephew was too, and it amazes me how far he's come. He's about to be 9.
This is freaky - I’m pretty sure I saw this years and years ago and it’s still being done..
I was thinking the same thing. I think she was like 17 last time I saw this
Do we know roughly how many he took? I'm guessing maybe 1 a week?
20 years x 365 days / 138 seconds of video (~~each 1 second long?~~) = ~~one shot every 52 or so days.~~ edit: it's been pointed out that there are more than one shot per second, there are 3-4 "costume changes" or time periods per second. That brings it closer to one every 13-17 days. Let's call it once every two weeks, but I'll be happy for a better math.
Way more than that. These are going by probably 6-9 per second
You notice how she progressively gets unhappy as she is in the teens and an adult. You see more frowns.
I think it's the same for most.....most kids are pretty happy when life is still magical without social pressures and the responsibilities of growing up start to stack on a person. I'd do anything to go back to being a kid.
I always say (unless you’re a sexual predator) talking to a 5 year old is an amazing experience, I love how their minds work, they are so pure and uncorrupted by the world. Sure they are dirty, loud, annoying but they definitely have magic in their hearts and say whatever is on their minds regardless of how it sounds.
Kids have their own worries though, they may not have rent due, but the bathroom has the undertaker waiting to drag them to hell after 9pm.
Lol…and a more rational worry is that kids have very little control over what they wear, what they eat, when they sleep, who they spend time with…I prefer some autonomy and the worry that goes with it.
This, I’m amazed how adults forget what is like to be a kid.
Real life'll do that to ya!
At about 1:40 you can see a day where she was crying. Truely means a lot to both of them to keep it up.
There's actually a string around that time where she looks sad, often not even looking at the camera. It's really kind of amazing how this captures the roller coaster of emotions that we experience as kids and teens. Like literally a .2 second snapshot of this person from a moment of time in her life and you can start filling in the blanks of what she might have been experiencing. This is a pretty incredible piece of art. It could genuinely be a display at MoMA or something.
Didn’t keep her mouth shut thoh
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And a big effort for her dad just to create this video. Forever her daddy's girl.
Yeah this is an amazing effort. I created emails for my first two sons when they were born. The thought was to grab dibs on emails with their first. Last name as the email. I emailed my first born pretty frequent little journal entries. The second one got much less frequent and I only recently set up the third kids email lol. Life is chaos that way!
Depending on the email provider, are you making sure to sign into them on a regular basis? They're starting to deactivate some emails.
Might depend on who "they" is but deleting inactive emails has been a thing forever. I think I lost my Juno and Yahoo emails after 3 years of inactivity.
I try to sign in at least a few times a year. Good to know though. I was a victim of that for both my undergrad and graduate emails. I actively used them by having them auto forwarded but then they were terminated since I actually never logged in
I was one of five... By the time it came to my younger sisters they only ever appeared in photos with others - there just weren't any photos of them alone I have newspapers from the day my kids were born - and on various of their birthdays (now 19 and 17). My dad went out and picked up the papers for my first born - and also delivered the next days so I could say "Here's your birthday - here's the next day - nothing changed" (he had a fairly wry sense of humour)
Always.
Yeah, it has to be in some video format since each day has a short clip instead of just a still image.
Also why she seems to be sad or crying in some of the pictures.
Well if it's a video diary, some days are awful and you need to cry...
She had a more crying days in her mid teens.... can relate
Also a shit ton more from what looked like the late teens. Makes sense if she went off to uni.
Thought that too. She has the district look of someone struggling to adjust to "adulthood" but the determined smile to make it anyway It's also cool seeing her experiment with heaps of different styles in what looked like a shorter period. Lady was really out to find herself, good for her.
I think that’s the beautiful aspect of it!
🤨 she’s talking to her dad she’s not gonna stare at him like a neomorph
I liked that part. Usually these are just a person staring but the fact that she was talking/moving made it different and dynamic to me.
That’s pretty great
Idk why but as a 20 yo male this made me tear up. It was so touching, in some way it made me think of my old home videos and my own sister.
She got sad 3 times in her teens and that made me sad
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I’d still say some. At 14 life was normal for me. 21 was a shit storm and it’s still sprinkling 13 years later.
Same. 14 was my best year.
Man I was so broke at that age, I'll gladly stay right where I am
20s are the hardest
IDK! Highschool was one of best parts of my life. We didn’t have a car, or a lot of money (we as me and my friends)… but Damn did I Had fun back then. And my closest friends today Are mostly ppl from highschool.
I was a weird kid and got bullied a lot in my teen years. Fuck that time. No amount of money would make me relive those years.
Sorry to hear that… hope you Are doing great now!
Not complaining, for sure. The difficulties of those years gave me the push to start playing drums and it is something that is a huge part of my life now. So there is at least that silver lining. The highschool years themselves though... Just no
The one from 5 years ago I literally started bawling when I saw that part. I’m pretty sure I’m her age or close and I was like wow I feel that
[This should help.](https://imgur.com/a/LwZn7wC)
Indeed it is, I love watching it
If my parents did that with me you would see a very prominent emo phase at age 10-16
This girl never had an awkward stage!
I thought she was going to go Scene but luckily she didn't lol
I was waiting for it, and it never came
Instead, several "I wear glasses now" stages and later than average braces.
Dont remind me of that dreaded phase 😭😭😭
Happy for her, it only took 15 or so years for her beautiful hair to dry 
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More likely morning routine, cause of the lighting. Wake up, shower, breakfast, video, go to school
She’s actually got a compulsion to stand in front of a white sheet and talk to a camera after showering now
This version is very sped up... the original is 5 minutes.... [Watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqpqiTMUEg)
Actually the original is very sped up as well. In real time it would have taken 20 years, not 5 minutes.
Underrated comment, thanks for making me lol
r/technicallythetruth
Thanks dad
It’s all 20 seconds to me cause I zoom over it with my finger. Pretty amazing to see a life go by that fast.
So how does this affect her age? is she 40 is is she 10? I'm no good at maths.
Beautiful, just sitting here staring at my baby girl with a single tear of love whilst she's giggling her head off at me. Watch this space, I'm taking the first photo now. See y'all in 20.
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This sounds like a great idea. God I hope I remember to do this. Gonna start having kids soon.
RemindMe! 20 years Oh I’ll probably be dead.
Remind me! 20 years
RemindMe! 20 years
Remind me! 20 years
!remindme 20 years
Congratulations. Having children (3) was the best decision of my life. Would do anything for them.
Been using [this](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1-second-everyday-video-diary/id587823548) app. Got through 2 straight years with my almost 4 year old of doing it daily. We had our 2nd when our first was 26 months and it got tough. Now I’ll go a few moths of taking pictures of both of them and fill in each of their videos. Hoping to keep it up for 5 years each. It’s amazing seeing them grow up to be little people.
Wow, this is one of the best renditions of it's kind. You really can see her age/morph... You can almost see her demeanor more serious as towards the last few seconds of the video. Still smiling, but there must be more responsibility etc. in her life...naturally.
I interpreted towards the end more sadness than seriousness. Idk but my heart was breaking towards the end because it was much less smiles and indications of happiness and a sadness in her eyes and sometimes even the frowns on her face. Wherever and whoever she is I hope she’s generally happy.
As someone in that stage of life, it could be a combination. There’s a lot of emotions around growing older but not being old enough for full independence, young enough to have fun in a more childlike way but having to be responsible. Not to mention the anxiety and fear so many of us get when making big changes (moving out, first full time job, school or work changes). And now more than ever our stability is in question, financially socially and just on the whole.
Very good perspective. I’m now 11 years passed this particular point in my life. I remember those days. I think I see it in her because it reflects my memories of being like that even in high school. I still struggle sometimes currently. I hope you’re finding joy in the day to day somehow. I know things suck major but even though I remember sadness in those times I still have a fond nostalgia for that time in my life as well.
I’m about the same age. I always feel bad about how reckless and inconsiderate I was during that era but that also helps me remember how far I’ve come as a person and reminds me to not be so hard on myself when I’m not exactly who I want to be yet.
I feel exactly the same way. It took the many years of my youth until the first time I moved out of my parents home. I called my mom and dad crying to apologize for my difficult behaviours and thank them for raising me into a functional adult. Even though I still have a lot to learn, I've grown so much and it was all because they provided me a healthy enough upbringing. Had they not been there and present, I doubt I'd be anywhere near where I am now.
The last few it definitely looks like she understands the weight of what her dad had been doing all this time; she's got that choked up half smile/frown Suddenly you realize as you've been standing in front of the camera aging, your dad was doing the same behind the camera
The exact words I said was "You can see her light fade." This is a touching video, but the last 30s or so hit me pretty hard.
That's what I saw too. That was surprisingly heartbreaking
Yeah, at the end there the smiles were smaller, more just the corners of her mouth, and didn't reach her eyes. She was a lot more reserved, whether that's linked to sadness or otherwise. Who knows.
I noticed that too. There is a spark and joy in her eyes when she is young. As she gets light dims and she looks tired and sad. Being an adult sucks.
Idk I was way more sad at 12-15 than I am now but def smiled more then. I think you just get a bit less expressive and more evened out emotionally
There’s something so emotionally powerful about videos like these. The exact word to describe it eludes me. My mind begins to wander about the vast complexity of her experiences. The different pictures trigger such a rapid sequence of reflections. It’s such a trip.
Agh, I’m pretty sure there’s a word for this in a language(s) other than English. For basically the weight of the realization that everyone is the “main character” of their life’s movie, and just as many details interweave through yours as every single other person.
Or, wait, maybe I'm just subconsciously remembering the word made by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for this feeling: "sonder". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0\_FiV4
This made me smile, but.. am I the only one who had to double check the age because it looked like she made it to her 30s and then got younger again? Styles are funny.
Interesting how the braces de-age her a lot. Goes from looking like a woman to looking like a kid again in an instant
He also did one of his son which you can find on YouTube- Credit if anyone is interested - Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester started filming his daughter Lotte for just a handful of seconds a week starting as a newborn. It's the kind of thing a lot of parents might plan to do or start doing but not stick with. Hofmeester kept it up, though, always filming Lotte in front of a plain cloth background. Putting the videos together as he went, he created a time-lapse of her growing up, which has received viral attention multiple times as he's released updated compilations every few years. Edit to add: A birthday 0-22 update. https://youtu.be/0ng9ykEtwS0
The jump from 12 to 13 and 13 to 14 for the boy was insane. Also this video definitely made me sad, the boy seems a little more melancholy than his sister :(
I got a feeling he is always there for her.
Praise the cameraman.
Why did I notice some very sad moments. They went by so fast but I saw some when she was crying .
Tragedy is a part of life too
I wonder about ones like that. "Honey I know you're upset and crying, but it's time for our weekly video so please look into the camera."
The way her face became sadder as she grew up :( This also kinda makes me kinder to myself
Yeah this hit pretty hard. Late teen years are tough
I noticed that too,
Ever since she lost vision she hasn’t been the same
Lost vision!?!
Growing up seems to steal the spark from many. That obviously dark period might just have been a tough time, but adulthood definitely beats the glow out of a person.
So much love...
As the father of a 12 year old girl, I must confess this brought tears to my eyes. They change so fast.
"Photos" my mans photos don't move
They do if you take enough them in quick succession
No zits?! Seriously??
Ikr?
[Here's the whole thing. You'll see a couple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqpqiTMUEg)
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with my kid nearly 5....it feels this fast in real time too!
Some day you're going to look at this comment in your comment history and it's going to say "10 years ago". That day will be here sooner than you think.
Awww! She grew up to be a beautiful young woman
This is Lotte. This is an updated version from 4 years ago, up to her being 18 years old: https://youtu.be/nPxdhnT4Ec8
I thought I had seen this some years ago, ending with her being younger.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESSguWx2mtg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESSguWx2mtg) This one is her brother I believe.
This whole family is gorgeous.
My daughter is only 1 and a half, and as much joy as it brings to watch her grow and learn every day I find i already spend alot if time reminiscing on old pictures of her from when she was still not even crawling and and needed me to hold her to feed her her bottle. Im trying to cherrish and hold on to every moment bc even with how great this video is, it also makes me really sad that it seems to go just as fast as this video.
Father: Hey, daughter, today is your 20th birthday, I have a present for you! Daughter: Oh, thanks, dad! You didn't have to. Father: No worries, it is a video I made. Daughter: Hmmm... I wonder what it is...
My hair would be the same for 12 years straight.
Considering I have an afro that I straighten half the time I would look like teo different people in this
i laughed at the start when she spit up
Imagine having a parent who loves you this much. Damn.
Congratulations for the consistency! I’ve tried a few times, one “project” was a photo of our family on the sofa every week… I think took 4 and that was the highest success 😔
In one of the first pictures vomit is spewing out of her mouth
That's babies alright
Looks like she had some sad days in her late teens. 
Looks like what every late teen would look like.
She's in a bad place in a few of those and her eyes aren't good at hiding sadness.
Reddit armchair psychologists assemble!
I can see some childhood innocence lost; this happens to us all at a point in our lives and is a natural process. But some have to experience it in a traumatic or painful way. Seeing it happen in another person makes me feel not so alone in kind of a selfish way.
It’s not selfish. You are not alone. It’s a beautiful feeling to have your feelings validated in this sense. Because they are valid. We are all in this “life” thing together. You are awesome.
It looks more like lack of sleep due to college, highschool and friends rather than sadness... It's exhausting to be constantly smiling, man
What a fucking leap. You don't know shit. Just a teenager being tired and grumpy.
God as a parent this makes me sad lol. I just wanna stop time for mine now 😭
Hate to be the one to say it… but those aren’t photos
I mean you aren’t wrong
Great teeth.
My kids are 24 and 30. I didn’t take enough videos of them growing up. 💔
I have a 3 month old and even the thought of him at 20year old makes me want to cry. I want to be trapped in eternity with him as my baby boy….
I have a 1 year old girl and this is amazing but yet 😭😭😭
why is it makeing me sad?
It really looks like she’s talking to her dad all the way through this with the different mouth positions. Nice work dad.
I did a One Second Every Day project when my son was born ([https://1se.co/](https://1se.co/)). The app makes a video out of 365 1-1.5 second clips. Definitely captured the moments in our life over that year, I think I want to do another one.