What's a good reason to post pictures of yourself, do you think? One I can think of; imagine yourself as a young child, perhaps a teenager. What would you think of your "look" now? I see a lot of people sighing with regret that they used to look to amazing and free when they were younger, I wonder if I'll ever look back like that? I feel that if anything, getting older (so far) has taught me that if I think it's beautiful that's reason enough to do it. You can be afraid that people will think you're taking an aesthetic too seriously, but there are worse things than being thought "too old" to act on an aspiration. I think of my future self, sometimes (I hope I'll have beautiful dreadlocks at my wedding), but usually vaguely.
But mostly if I feel the need to compare myself, I might think about all the things I couldn't or wouldn't dare to do when I was younger, and how proud my younger self would be to see me acting on my desires now.
