Fledgling I had to laugh about that you were gorgeous when you were 30. My ex-husband just send me 3 cd's with copies of slides from the 20 years of our marriage and the first thing I told my children I can't believe how good looking we were in our thirties :)
Then I saw the pictures in Amsterdam with all the cars and the way people were dressed and I felt I lived in an "antique" time.
Getting older is a strange thing, the mind does not feel old.
I am with you I don't read newspapers anymore, watch the news or anything negative.