So sad that there are people on here saying they can find NO positives in being old. Very sad - as actually just having reached the age of 'being old' is a positive in itself.
We only have one life, and do need to live it fully at all ages. I am so sad for friends who have died and have not had the opportunity of seeing their g.children grow up.
Like many others here, I have had my own problems, a disastrous marriage, the effects still reverberating in my life, the death of my youngest child at the age of 25 years, and now some quite bad health problems.
However, I am still here, and can see my other children making good in their lives - (they had to survive several years of a pretty dysfunctional home life when they were teenagers), watch them bring up their children, and all seem happy and well.
I have a nice place in which to live, and, although I only have as income state benefit and pension credit, (along with Attendance Allowance), it is enough to live on in reasonable comfort.
Never been one for holidays - my holidays are long weekend visits to children. Do not drink or smoke, occasional luxury of theatre trip. Prefer eating at home than out. Still, at present, able to be part of my long-time hobby of gymnastics as a judge.
Surely, those who say 'No positives' are not really meaning that - hopefully not.
This thread has also reminded me how vast is the age difference in the posters, so there can be anything up to thirty plus years between us - which begs the question, what exactly is meant by 'being old'?