And now, "Mother's Little Helper", is stuck in my head.
Gettin' old ain't for pussies.

I've never acted my age. Had a baby at 42. Broke all the norms and continue to do so.

I love being old! The pressure is off and I can live life on my own terms and no one cares!

No matter what age any adult person is they have already lived longer than the vast majority of people who have ever lived. That is something to be proud of.

I WOULDN'T KNOW....I am not there.

Better than the alternative.

Agreed.

If you haven't matured by 50, you don't have to.

If a woman crosses her legs while sneezing or coughing it is not funny! Jus sayin!

The alternative is worse ... and final.

I can't kick the bucket until I have crocheted all 50,029 saved patterns on my computer.

Well, hopefully you will get E-V-E-N older! It is a shock to wake up one morning and realize that you are on another phase of your life. One that looks and seems different somehow, but you still seem to be the same person on the inside. If you want to keep abreast of things, you simply must reinvent yourself...something is out of kilter and does not fit you, now! I have done this several times and it can hurt to shed the old skin and put on another one! But each new skin fits so much better than the previous one...that you have no regrets about the work that it took to grow your newest skin!

I have figured out that only the tough get old. I look around me and way too often I am the oldest one in the room. Not used to that.

I'm told I don't look a day over 50. However, parts of me feel 90.

Getting old really does suck, but I don't want to stop.

Not old- ripe.
I look at Keith Richards and think: hey, I don't have that many wrinkles; I am good.

I look at it a little differently: the entirety of life is a journey, and each step of the way is an experience of its own. I've experienced being an infant, a child, an adolescent, a teenager, young adult, mature adult...and now I'm experiencing being old. It's not the best stage physically, but it has its attractions. It's all interesting. And each stage has its own lessons to teach me.

The old Irish comedian, Dave Allen summed it up the best

"If you think old age is bad, consider the alternative"

You gotta OWN IT! I love my age. I'm the best me I've ever been, at least mentally and emotionally. Physically, not so much, but I'm not complaining.

LOL!

Who's old?

Other than the little aches and pains, being tired all the time, not being able to physically do some of the things I used to do and most of all, missing loved ones I have out lived, eh, it ain't so bad

On a more serious note: I know people who retired as senior and who started new and exciting careers. My formula is take care of yourself. Become a "health nut." Go into your senior years without the usual aches and pains. Then you have the monkey by the tail. You're wiser. The bad stuff has been worked out and is behind you. You're freer and ready to rock and roll. These can be the best years of your life.

Getting 'old' is so liberating that one might in time look forward to the final liberation. One, (this one) discovers with each passing day what was obscured in a youth filled with existential distractions. The life 'puzzle' has meant more pieces on the table.

Seeing patterns and belongingness of what pieces are left accelerates, leading to a more rapidly disclosed picture that wasn't possible to even imagine in youth, when so few pieces seemed related.