When Fighting Life Lessens With Age

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:28.2	I decided this morning, I had so many video things they forced me to do yesterday, that I
0:35.0	left that undone.
0:37.4	So this morning, I said, let's do them. And so I rushed upstairs,
0:44.1	went to put some makeup on, because it's video, got close to the mirror and went,
0:50.8	good gracious me, when did all that aging to my face happen?
0:56.5	I don't get that close to the mirror.
0:59.7	I don't think I'm going to anymore either.
1:02.4	I think three feet is a good distance.
1:04.5	It's a little hard to put on eye makeup, but three feet from the mirror.
1:08.0	And I had a little conversation with myself, and I thought I'd share it with
1:11.4	you because we did a deep dive about aging, especially for women, because men, as they get
1:18.9	sort of gritty and stuff, they, we see them as sexier. Yeah. I mean, you look at a number of even movie stars. When they were young,
1:31.6	they were really pretty. But when they got older, they got more manly looking. So that was nice.
1:37.7	But anyway, so I'm having a little conversation with myself and I'm going, you know,
1:43.8	you're 78. This is what happens if you
1:48.1	make it to 78. If you croaked at 30, this would not have happened, but you would have missed
1:52.3	58 years. So not a good plan. And I said to myself, are you upset?
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