If you pause for a moment and look around, you’ll see the signs of life long-lived everywhere. From faded wooden floors to sofa marks, and your beloved doggo’s face, things are constantly changing and surrendering to time.
Call it getting worn down, aging, or acquiring a story to tell, you cannot escape the passage of time. So Bored Panda has compiled a collection full of the most intriguing and incredible examples of things being marked by time, whether it’s the wear and tear of gravity, friction, or repeated use. It’s beautiful how philosophical we get when looking at things from such an existential perspective!
Psst! More incredible things that got worn out with time can be found in our previous posts here, here, and here.
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My Great Grandfather's British Army Issue Pocket Watch Along With The German Bullet That It Stopped In France 1914
One Of The Oldest ‘Beware Of The Dog’ Signs In The World, Found In Pompeii Ruins, Italy
The naming of The Canary Islands comes from the Latin for dog, as the Romans used the dogs from there to hunt with. So the islands were known as Isla Canaris. The bird was then named after the Island.
This Sculpture Of Jesus At Abandoned Cemetery In Poland Gets Slowly Absorbed By A Tree. Pictures Taken 12 Years In Between
I sometimes get lost in the speculation of what they will find hundreds of year from now of our society
If this tree is never felled, than no one in the future will ever know. But if one day someone takes down that tree and tries to cut it up, they will get a (hopefully not painful) surprise
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I find it oddly beautiful. It makes me think of the Green Man/Woman (sometimes referred to as "Jack in Green", a pagan symbol/deity found throughout the mythologies of England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. They are often associated with fertility, rebirth, nature and their likeness appears on many old churches and castles as the face of an ageless man or woman with leaves and vines twisting around their features.
That in the picture is a statue, made by human hands. Jesus is God.
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I am the vine. You are the branches. I could go on and on here. This is cool
This is so creepy. I'd love to be there in 50 years when the tree dies or has to be cut down and the people find this. They will run screaming with their hands over their heads.
And in another 25 years when the statue is completely absorbed and forgotten some poor sod gets the order chop that tree down....
At some point Jesus's head is just gonna be sticking out from the tree, then just his eyes...
The natural world covering up the fictional. Maybe the tree is getting revenge for the fig tree jesus smited.
The phenomenon of wear and tear reflects the second law of thermodynamics, in which objects stray from their original form and function over time unless energy from an external force is used to maintain them. If restoration is impossible, an object is regarded as consumable.
But not all goods get worn out with time. For example, automobiles, heavy machinery, mainframe computers, musical instruments, and water heaters are all designed with wear parts that are maintained generally by replacement of parts.
The Walls In This Old Coffeehouse Have Shadows Where People Used To Sit
Stairs On The Great Wall Of China. How Many People Do You Think Have Walked On Them?
Berlin Wall: Graffiti Spray Paint Layers On A Broken Piece
seems like people have expressed themselves quite vehemently over the years
One way to determine if a good is durable or not is whether a service technician or repairman would typically attempt repairs on it. A specialist may need to be consulted, such as an auto mechanic, a computer technician, a luthier, a gunsmith, or a plumber.
But not only goods get worn out with time. Time leaves marks on living beings too, from animals to human beings. At the same time, it makes us more self-confident, empathic, and wise, and the signs of aging come at that price.
Planting 90,000ish Trees Take A Few Inches Of A Shovel
I planted 4,000 by hand... I need to check my shovel, or is it a hoe now?
This Piece Of Wall That Got Rounded By The Sea
100 Years Ago Someone Lost Their Coin Purse
Found in the woods of Southwestern Vermont with my metal detector:
1899 Barber Dime;
1897 Indian Head Cent;
1904 Indian Head Cent.
A Cemetery Of Telephone Booths In The UK
Cubic Crystals Growing In Old Play-Doh
This Truck In A Tree I Found While Driving Through The Woods
Can Someone Give Me A Jump Start? Haven't Driven This Thing In A While
Years Of Boops Have Taken Their Toll On Oden's Nose
The sun darkens a dogs nose. It's much more obvious if you live in a climate with Winter (nose becomes lighter over Winter). Darkest at the end of summer.
My Dogs' Nerf Frisbee. Still Their Favorite
My Rotting Goomba Pumpkin Looks More Like Goomba Now Than It Did When It Was Freshly Carved
My Grandfather's Liberty Dollar He Carried For 50+ Years Because "A Man's Always Gotta Have A Dollar In His Pocket"
Took a few attempts to get it, but you can still make out Lady Liberty.
A Road On My Work Commute Is Eroding And Starting To Expose The Old Cobblestone Street. London
Mom Surprised Me With The Brand New Version Of My 27-Year-Old Childhood Stuffed Animal
My Mask Filters After One Day Firefighting
This Display In Ashmolean Museum Shows How Touching Artwork Affects Material
it's sad how we have to relegate things to storerooms simply coz we cannot keep our hands off stuff
Tree Consuming Children... Sign
My ID Left An Impression Of My ID Pic On My Badge Holder
The Border Of My Tattoo Turned Into A Stretch Mark During My First Pregnancy, Now It Looks 3D
A Coin Taped In My Father's Baby Book Stayed Clean Under The Tape Only
This Old Color Pencil Box After Termites Ate All The Wood
This Deteriorating Combination Lock I Found At The Beach
Leaf Has Been Sitting On A Fountain For A Long Time
I'm A Mailman And I Walk Around 11 Miles A Day. My Old Boots Are From Mid March
This Old Copper Crayon Turned Green
They must have put real copper in it. I wonder if they still do that today?
Burned Out Microwave Bulb Left This Smoke Pattern Inside
The Way This Tree Grew Over The Railing
"Biodegradable" Cups That Were Buried In A Composter For 15 Years. Everything Else Turned To Dirt Except These
Holes Worn Into A Tree By Shaolin Monks Over Centuries Of Pressing Their Fingers Into The Bark To Train Their Finger Strength
They Served Me Well For 6 Years But It Was Time. $220 Plus A $60 Resole A Couple Years Ago From The Local Cobbler. Looking Forward To Another 6 Years
I’ve blown through $200+ Red Wings and Timberlands in months but these never failed me (the holes happened a few months ago).
This Perfect Semicircular Mark In The Garden Is Made By A Dog That Has Followed This Path For Years
An Old Well In A Village In Permet. It Must Have Taken A Long Time For The Grooves To Appear
My Sister Has Kept The Same Koosh Ball Chain On Her Keys Since The Early 90s. What It Is Meant To Look Like vs. What It Actually Looks Like Now
When 900 Years Old You Reach, Look As Good You Will Not
Years Of Paint Build Up I Chipped Of An Old Trestle At Work
This Tree Growing Through An Old Truck
My Grandpa’s Old Hammer
An Office Computer Mouse That's Been Clicked To A Mirror Finish
Over The Years Shaggy Has Slowly Turned Grey On My Scooby-Doo Mug
Knife At My Work That's Halfway Gone From Sharpening
Skateboard Wheels
David Blaine’s Hands After Spending 7 Days Underwater
Ewww, curious to know why he stayed under water for 7 days. Google here I come.
A Vending Machine That Time Forgot
Oman Clay Tile With Footprint Left By A Toddler As It Dried 2000 Years Ago, Vaison-La-Romaine (Ancient Vasio Vocontiorum)
does anyone else think it would be cool to find some viable DNA and trace their progeny?
These Bendy Trees I Saw On My Walk This Afternoon
My Son’s Watercolors Got Left In The Sun, And They Shrunk Into Round Balls
Steps At Hawkstone Folly Worn Down By Footsteps And Weather
100 Of Each: Mutilated Bills, Bills In Circulation, And Brand New
Thought You Might Like This. Crt Screen Burn In On A TV That Was Used As A Security Cam Monitor
That's cool! I remember when we'd turn off the TV (by hand) and the picture would fade. I can still hear the static electricity.
The Way This Hammer Has Changed Through The Years And Weather
The Western Staircase Leading To The Roof Of The Temple Of The Goddess Hathor, Egypt. 2300 Years Old
A 300-Year-Old Brick With A Paw Print In It
This Nike That We Found While Hiking
A Pedal On The Piano In A University Practice Room
Four And A Half Years Of Dust Building Up On A Green Army Man
It's salt from the dead sea I think, you'd have to Google but I'm sure it's an art installation of various items that build up a thick coat of salt over time
Only The Left Handle Of The Door Has Scratches Because Of Wedding Rings
This Rock My Sisters And I Put Between These Tree Limbs 10-Ish Years Ago
I've Been Documenting The Natural Decay In This Small Abandoned Church Since 2012
Some Knives Obviously Used In My Family For Generations
Spot Worn On My Son's Pachycephalosaurus' Head From Years Of Head-Butting Other Dinosaurs
This Dried Plant That’s Been Wearing Away At This Fence In An Arc Pattern As The Wind Blows
This Forgotten Bike That Grew Into A Tree
My Grandma's 60-Year-Old Wooden Spoon That She Still Uses All The Time
Ollie’s New Panda And 3 Year Old Panda
My Work Gloves After 1 Month
Utility Pole Shows Evidence Of Years Of Flyers
who uses a self-cutting screw to put up a flyer? did they frame it?!?
Tree Grew Into The Fence
Finishing Pens Without Losing Them
That's impressive, I'm never be able to keep my pens long enough to actually finish them.
Dinosaur Skin Imprint
It is cool. We get to see what dinosaur skin actually looked like, not just guess/make assumptions about it.
The Game Boy That Survived The Gulf War (1991)
It Was Hot Enough This Summer In Phoenix To Melt The Blinds On My Bedroom Window
Yep. I'm here with you. I had to buy steel blinds. Many days of 110° F temps is hard on everything!
The Sanitizer At Work Has Started To Eat Through The Tile On The Bathroom Floor Over The Past Year
My 14-Years-Old Well Worn Toy Compared To A New One Found In A Second Hand Shop
Two And A Half Years In The Pilbara Desert vs. Brand New
My Great Grandfather's Ww1 Dog Tags
Both Of My Lights Burnt Out - One Turned White While The Other Turned Black
This Piece Of A Brick Wall Weathered Into A Stone I Found On The Shore Of Lake Ontario
I Had No Idea These Grips Were Originally Hot Pink Until I Cut Them Off
I Found A Nickel That Is 116 Years Old
The Condensation On This Bar Of Soap
The Same Wooden Cover On The Building, But One Part Is Under The Balcony. 10 Years Of Weather
The Wear On The Weights In My Gym Created A Normal Distribution
Shovel Used By An Elderly Client To Shovel Her Steps Since 1978
Furnace Filter vs. Two Weeks Of Wildfire Smoke
Tree Absorbing A Fire Hydrant
This could eventually get very interesting. Having visions of a full grown tree being spouted into the air on a column of water
A Sustained Playing Card That I Found In My Blinds
The Flooring From My Barber's Shop
My Dad Has Worn This Spoon Down Over 30 Years From Scraping The Bottom Of Cooking Pans And Pots
New vs. One Working Day Cleaning Archaeological Ceramics
Internal Staircase, Leaning Tower In Pisa
29-Year-Old Bike Lock I Left At My Public School In Grade 7
After 15 Years Of Hard Work It’s Time To Retire My Old Red Wings
My Mom Found A Cute Rug At The Store. Brought It Home And It Was The Same One She Had Before
Puddles After Rain Show The Spots Where The Wheels Are In This Parking Lot
Divots In My Basketball After 2 Weeks Of Finger Spinning
I Don't Remember How Old My Keyboard Is
This Pan Has Seen Some S***
I Had To Retire The Admiral Today. It's Been A Rough Decade
Progression Of Wear On Us Silver Dollars
Fun fact: the ridges on the outside of the coins were put there to prevent people from shaving off parts of the coins to melt and make more coins.
Bought Two Well-Used Decks Of Uno At Yard Sale For .50¢ Dated 1979 And 1983. Both Decks Have All 108 Cards
The Pattern Of Bite Marks On My Dog’s Frisbee After Thousands Of Fetches
After 15 Years, Finally Decided To Detail My Headlight
What 3000+ Miles Of Biking Will Do To A Pair Of Gloves
New vs. Used Electrodes For My Pool Ionizer
I Wonder... What Might The Password Be?
There was a brilliant post (possibly on Tumblr) in which the comments tried to Sherlock their way to working out the code on a door lock like this. In that case the comments were eventually Watsoned when it was pointed out that the light was green - the door was already open. If I can find it, I'll post it - the logic was impeccable!
Brick Wall vs. Chain
My Dad's Old Leatherman Holster And His New One. He Hardly Ever Buys Things Online And Was Super Excited To Show This Off To Me
This Metal Ring To Tie Boats To In A Harbor
It's Still There - After 20 Years
My Very Well Worn Pair Of Bicycle Shoes After 20,000+ Miles (Including A Bike Ride From Portland, Or, USA To Ushuaia, Argentina) Compared To The Same Model Brand New
40 Years Of Throwing Darts
My Mom Has Been Using The Same Shovel For 25 Years
Chain On A Machine In My Gym
Chain And Water Makes For A Great Pattern In Stone
New Vans vs. Old. Wish I Could Remember How Many Years I Wore The Old Ones
Please don’t mind the dirty floors of my old camper van, this was taken in 2017 while traveling - stopped in Flagstaff, AZ to pick up a new pair!
5-Month-Old Banana
The First Six Frets Of My Stratocaster Neck
Burn-In On An OLED TV That Played CNN All Day For 2 Years
This Carpet (Bought In 1992) Lost Its Red Where It Was Exposed To Sunlight
This Boot I Found In The Woods Is Covered In Moss
Pay Your Respects To These Fallen Soldiers
The Drastic Difference In Color Between The Part Of The Rocks That Were Underwater vs. Exposed To Air And How Much The Water Level Has Changed
I just heard a geologist refer to that as the "bathtub ring." Hope that didn't get too technical. Not sure I understood it myself ;) Seriously, apparently this is going to be another record drought year in the U.S. southwest, she was expressing a lot of concern about the "bathtub ring" around Lake Mead, A few miles east of Las Vegas
My Grandma Has Been Sharpening This Knife For So Long It's Nearly Gone
The Same Doorknob, Different Humidity For Over A Decade
I Think It’s Time To Accept I Need A New Pair
The Left Side Of My Chess Was Exposed To Sun, Other Wasn't
This Knife Has Been In Our Family For Generations. Sharpened Regularly. Used To Have A Typical Knife Shape
A Door Step In Antwerp That Is Deformed After Many Years Of Use
X-Mas Of 2019 I Got Two Pillows And Used 1 Of Them Every Night For A Year
This Iron Post In Charleston Harbour, Cornwall
Dripping Soap (Not Acid)
Water Heater Elements
Old Work Boots, Meet New Work Boots
The Wear On A LEGO Brick I've Been Using As A Key Hanger For A Few Years, Compared To A New One
I Got A New Wallet. 6 And A Half Years Difference
This Well Worn Parking Sign
My Wood Fired Oven Brush After A Year Of Heavy Use vs. A New One
This Knife I Saw At My Local Grocery Store
This Groove In The Pavement Made From The Gate
Customer: Yeah, So My Chain Jumps From Time To Time. His Chainring:
The Restaurant I Work At Uses These Plates To Bake Things
Interesting, time-worn-down things that tell good stories? You literally described grandparents.
When we do shows at my school, we always end up using this old bar set that was built in like 2013. We repaint it for almost every show and by this point we might need to scrape off some paint layers or it'll be to heavy to carry onstage
You say 2013 like it was so long ago 😭 jk, I’m sure that was like half your lifetime ago
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Next time you feel old, just think of how well your body actually DOES hold up.
And keep moving, you don't want a tree to eat you.7
Load More Replies... Interesting, time-worn-down things that tell good stories? You literally described grandparents.
When we do shows at my school, we always end up using this old bar set that was built in like 2013. We repaint it for almost every show and by this point we might need to scrape off some paint layers or it'll be to heavy to carry onstage
You say 2013 like it was so long ago 😭 jk, I’m sure that was like half your lifetime ago
Load More Replies... Next time you feel old, just think of how well your body actually DOES hold up.
And keep moving, you don't want a tree to eat you.7
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