Very true. It’s just a greater certainty that looks will fade. If you start out rich, it’s easier to die rich than it is to die good looking.
Unfortunately, it’s hindsight thing. A man in his 20’s can’t really grasp that he’ll die one day, although he knows he will intellectually. He can’t really grasp that his wife will in all likelihood lose her looks, even though he might know it intellectually. Or, he might just be fooled into thinking that his wife will keep her looks like Michelle Pfeifer even though his chances of winning the lottery are just as good. That’s the bane of being young. The future seems so far away, until you get there.
I think it is one of the things that has helped me embrace getting older and helped me enjoy it...nobody keeps it forever. Nobody. It is like life...nobody gets out alive!
Once you accept that, it is liberating. You don’t have to look like slob, but neither do you have to obsess over your physique.
I must say, I wouldn’t mind being 20 years old again just to have a body that didn’t protest quite so often, but I would only do it if I could my brain into that body. Otherwise, no sale!