Sometimes accidents make all the difference:

This is the picture I snapped after the astonishment wore off, and my jaw finally closed. Haha There I was, standing in front of one of the oldest depictions of Buddha EVER found.

I love history and artifacts, its an eerie feeling standing in front of something, that pretty much came from another world than the one in which we live today. A world thousands of years ago, where everything, down to even the smallest detail, is completely foreign to what we see as normal. With different beliefs, customs, traditions, values, and understanding of the world they inhabit. Although we are both, from the same place. Its almost as if, we get a glimpse, into a parallel dimension of our former selves.

How this came about-

I took a trip to Washington, DC specifically to explore, and go to every museum I could in a two day window. This artifact was housed at the Smithsonian institute. This is the headpiece, to what used to be a full figure, it dates back to the 3rd century.

What Buddha really looked like?

Most people probably bring to mind the fat jolly Buddha, but that's not the reality of it. This being one of the oldest means that its probably the most accurate.