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I've enjoyed my life & growing old gas enabled me to step aside more & view problems more logically rather than in my youth panicking & rushing into the wrong decsision ! Thank you old age for more wisdom !

It worries me a bit, I worry a lot about the future and what it brings, but there's nothing we can do about growing older!

Growing old is getting wiser.You are as old as you feel..

I might be getting older by day, but by night, in my dreams, I seem to be permanently stuck in the 1970s!
That sounds great, but isn't because the dreams always revolve around the most painful memories of my teenage years, the ones that should be long-forgotten by now.

I am happy to get older as it means I now have my lovely grandchildren! The disadvantage is the increase in an ache or two in the morning!

Im happy but my knees are unhappy. I hope my knees last long enough for me to play on the floor with all the current and future grandchildren.

I have more patience, more wisdom, more experience and less stress. And I have grandchildren - and I'm getting a cat, very soon, now that I have mourned my tabby who died full of years and wisdom a year ago.

Its weird, younger people appear to be "kids", like the range of kids expands and older people mysteriously develop a reverse appearance in their looks. What happened to me and my hubby, we seem to be slowing, forgetting, wetting, sleeping and looking every day, a bit closer to "the end" (smile)

It's fine until I realise that the wolf whistle from the building site is not directed at me but then I used to complain about that,didn't I ?

Age is a state of mind only reflectable in the body when something is wrong

The good thing about getting old is. You can talk rubbish and get away with it !

I'm fine with getting older, I can pass on my experience and knowledge to my daughter and know she'll listen and take it on board, unlike myself, who thought I knew everything!

Best bit is sitting in bed with a cup of tea, watching the rain pouring down, knowing I don't have to get up and go to work

I still think it's true,You're only as old as you feel,but that said at 62,its a good job I am retired,because I do have far less energy,and do like to take things somewhat more slowly.This has happened quite rapidly over the last 18 monthes

Brilliant to have got this far and bring on the rest - but who is the person I see in the mirror who looks like my nan?

I'm not keen on the various minor ailments that I've started to get, but I'm less worried about my looks and clothes than I was when I was younger. I'm also looking forward to getting my mortgage paid off so that I'll have some money, at last, to do the things that I want to do.

I like to embrace every stage in my life and this is no different.

From once I feel useful to my family and society and can make a contribution I don't dwell on it. I love doing creative things that I put on hold when the children were little and I had to juggle. We have to make room for the new generation and part of it is growing old.

Old age - the time when the favourite topic of conversation is how the blackbird bullies the thrush in the garden, and when going out to dinner is always done at lunchtime because you don't want to miss seeing those really nice presenters on your own regional news programme.

See, it's not all bad.

Enjoy what you have while you still have it. Don't limit yourself because you think you ought to.

I hate getting older. Everything aches at one time or another and looking back at photos when my children were small is a little sad that that time has gone.

Getting older (when does that start? 50, 60, 70...?)is all about ups and downs. The downside is the definite increase in wrinkles, but the upside is that your eyes now struggle to see them!

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You know you're getting old when your children say to their children things like ' well we didn't have computers or mobile phones when we were young'

Gertting old is quite scary to begin with. I look around at others and sometimes worry that I have not achieved a great deal in life in comparison. I think as you get older you then come to realise that everyone is different. People progress at different stages in different aspects of life. Some people are ahead career wise, others are ahead family wise.

Also as time goes on, and you go through the experiances of losses in life you begin to ask yourself... what is old anyway? Some people die young and some people can live up to a 100 plus. So how can you know when you are truly old. Just enjoy the time you have besides worry is said to have an impact on your life expectancy.

looking forward to having no mortgage but hope i still have enough energy to play with grandchildren when they come allong

Getting older is always priding yourself on your musical knowledge and suddenly realising you haven't a clue who most people are in the charts. Bit of a shock but not something you would want to change!