A Story about Aging

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I made another narrated video – this time exploring the experience of aging as a woman. It’s about how it can feel to grow older in a world that often overlooks you, or treats you as if you’ve faded somehow. Not always, but often enough to leave a mark. Still, there’s a quiet beauty in the passage of time, if we’re willing to see it. In every line, every story etched into a face, there’s power. Many cultures revere their elders, not as burdens, but as wise, living archives of love, resilience, and truth. This video is a tribute to that, to the women who’ve lived, who’ve endured, and who are still becoming.

Images – #midjourney
Animation – #Runwayml
Music – #Suno
Voiceover – #ElevenLabs

Lyrics

No one really tells you this part
how you start to fade a little
not in spirit
but in the way the world looks at you
like you’ve slipped into soft focus

At first it stings

You speak and people talk over you
you enter a room and no one quite notices
and then you realize
there’s peace in the quiet

I used to worry about everything
my hair
my weight
whether I said the right thing at the dinner party

Now I say what I want
I eat the cake
I leave when I’m tired

There’s a strange kind of freedom in being overlooked
like being handed an invisibility cloak
but instead of sneaking around
you finally get to be yourself

I walk slower now
but I notice more
the way the light catches on a leaf
how birds still sing even when no one’s listening

My body is changing
my skin tells stories
my hands remember things my mind forgets

I don’t miss being young
I miss firsts
first loves
first homes
first wild ideas

But this time
this quiet light
it’s tender

I’ve grown into myself
no longer trying to fit

I am rooted
and I am still blooming
just
softer now

So if you see me out there
half invisible
smiling to myself

Just know
I’ve never felt more alive

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Credit for finding this video goes to Leela via FB

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