The Feat of Human Beauty at Age 30

From a strictly-platonic standpoint, there is something quite impressive about a human being who at age 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80, even, still has good presence to them and does not elicit a wince at that age.

For a human being to have reached any of those ages while still having good and smile-inducing presence to them (this despite the aging process that all human beings are subjected to) indicates that that human being has taken his or her own life seriously---a remarkable triumph, one could say.

It also indicates that that individual:
(1) pursued a healthy dietary lifestyle;
(2) diligently consulted a primary-care physician, a dermatologist, or a dentist, for instance, whenever medical symptoms arose;
(3) obtained enough sleep at night;
(4) pursued enough exercise on a year-round basis, while avoiding over-exposure to the sun outdoors;
(5) abstained from any consumption of illicit drugs and avoided the nightmare of alcohol addiction or tobacco addiction;
(6) stayed away from bars and nightclubs;
(7) stayed out of fist-fights and other sadomasochistic activities involving physical violence;
(8) refrained from pursuit of high risk activities (rock-climbing, for instance) in that individual's life;
(9 consistently drove a motor vehicle in a safe and prudent manner on roadways, and consistently drove within the speed limit on roadways;
(10) pursued a law-abiding and honorable and people-friendly and civil lifestyle,

and thereby achieved that phenomenal feat at age 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80.

This is why I regard it as very fair to observe that human beauty at age 50, say, is even more impressive than human beauty at age 20. It is relatively easy for a human being to look beautiful or handsome at age 20, but very, very difficult, and increasingly nearing the realm of virtual impossibility, for that same person to then look beautiful or handsome, and not a wince-inducing eyesore to others, at age 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80.

This observation does not, of course, relate to romantic appeal per se. This observation is a strictly-platonic expression of appreciation for a well-preserved human being who is standing 50 feet away from me at the time. Quite a feat of self-preservation, that individual is, one notes with strictly-platonic admiration when the other person reaches age 50 and is actually appealing to the eye and not a visual nightmare at that age. "Good to sense that they still believe in themselves, at the age of 50!," one notes.