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Fun things about growing old.

Fun things about growing old.

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I guess I'm now living in that stage of life* when we compare notes about our various ailments and gripes about impertinent youngsters.

But one still tries to remain optimistic!

😉
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* or perhaps the "third trimester" as Tina Brown has put it

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@Arkturos said
I guess I'm now living in that stage of life* when we compare notes about our various ailments and gripes about impertinent youngsters.

But one still tries to remain optimistic!

😉
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* or perhaps the "third trimester" as Tina Brown has put it
Never, ever, stop looking after your best friend; that ageing body that has carried your brain around since you were a crawling baby 🙂

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@Drewnogal said
Never, ever, stop looking after your best friend; that ageing body that has carried your brain around since you were a crawling baby 🙂
That's good. And never forget when looking at your ageing friends, the same applies to you.

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Since I'm starting to age a little, I have made a list of the top 3 things I like about getting old.
Here it is:
1.
2.
3.

That about covers it.

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@mwmiller said
Since I'm starting to age a little, I have made a list of the top 3 things I like about getting old.
Here it is:
1.
2.
3.

That about covers it.
1. experience
2. experience
3. experience

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@Arkturos said
I guess I'm now living in that stage of life* when we compare notes about our various ailments and gripes about impertinent youngsters.

But one still tries to remain optimistic!

😉
_____
* or perhaps the "third trimester" as Tina Brown has put it
The glass is half FULL.👍

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The only good things I have as an elder are the memories I made as a yung'un. 🙂

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@Earl-of-Trumps said
The only good things I have as an elder are the memories I made as a yung'un. 🙂
Some of my memories I would sooner forget, but many I remember fondly!!! 😉


-VR

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Oh, yeah: senior discounts! 😉

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@mwmiller said
Since I'm starting to age a little, I have made a list of the top 3 things I like about getting old.
Here it is:
1.
2.
3.

That about covers it.
Yeah, understandable.

There's a horrific aspect to the awareness of (the rumored likelihood of) one's own decline and end (or the possibility of a sudden and unexpected end, especially if by some kind of clumsy, tawdry, or non-cinematic misadventure).

But for me, one of the fun things about growing old is that it seems I haven't already died yet. 😉

Maybe a way to counterbalance that horrific aspect is to accept that there's not much one can do about it (at least for now), and especially to appreciate that one was even born in the first place to experience the variety of things (including miseries) on offer at the grand buffet of life on Earth at this moment, however long one's stay might turn out to be.

"A bird flies in from the outer dark into a lighted room, and then flies out again." -- King Alfred (paraphrased)

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Maybe another benefit of getting older is that I'm beginning to recognize and accept that I'm never going to do many of the things I ever intended to do, so I might as well just relax.