Dealing with Aging

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:29.5	I decided this morning, I had so many video things they forced me to do yesterday, that I left that undone. So this morning, I said, let's do them.
0:42.3	And so I rushed upstairs, went to put some makeup on, because it's video, got close to the
0:50.8	mirror and went, good gracious me, when did all that aging to my face happen?
0:57.7	I don't get that close to the mirror most. I don't think I'm going to anymore either.
1:03.5	I think three feet is a good distance. It's a little hard to put on eye makeup, but three feet from the mirror.
1:09.3	And I had a little conversation with myself, and I thought I'd share it with you because
1:13.1	we did a deep dive about aging, especially for women, because men, as they get sort of gritty
1:20.9	and stuff, we see them as sexier.
1:26.7	Yeah.
1:32.7	I mean, you look at a number of even movie stars. When they were young,
1:38.8	they were really pretty. But when they got older, they got more manly looking. So that was nice.
1:46.0	But anyway, so I'm having a little conversation with myself and I'm going, you know, you're 78.
1:50.1	This is what happens if you make it to 78.
1:54.4	If you croaked at 30, this would not have happened, but you would have missed 58 years.
1:56.4	So not a good plan.
2:01.6	And I said to myself, are you upset?
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