Looking back on our youth, we all realize the hair we thought was "super cool" a decade or two back is in reality totally awful. That's just life.

Except in the case of Paul Rudd.

Paul Rudd's '80s hair while attending the University of Kansas is still magical to this day, and he should feel no shame at having once possessed such a luscious mane. Gaze upon it in all its glory.

Redditor SmoothBread uploaded the image of Rudd, saying it comes from a University of Kansas yearbook. Wherever it comes from, SmoothBread has done the world a great service by posting the picture. Now men the world over know what to strive for. Could it be that Rudd once played in an '80s metal band? He seems like an Anthrax kind of guy. Let's not forget the actor does make a convincing member of KISS in the 2008 comedy Role Models.

Looks familiar, no?

Or maybe at the end of the day Rudd was just too lazy to get a haircut for yearbook picture day. Whatever the reason, he will most likely have some explaining to do when he is inevitably asked about the picture.