The hands of time wait for no one, not even for the magical wand-waving kids of Disney Channel. When a childhood favourite resurfaces on screen after years away, you probably rejoice. But you are also faced with your own mortality when the person looking back at you bears only a passing resemblance to the fresh-faced teenager you once had plastered on your bedroom wall.
We know, rationally, that people age. We know that the clean-cut heartthrob with the perfect hair and the Disney-approved jawline is going to look different at 37 than he did at 17. And yet, every single time, the internet acts completely surprised. Sterling Knight just gave an entire generation of millennials that exact feeling.
