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Now that I've hit sixty I'm not sure that there is much difference from when I was forty - slightly less laundry! Still chasing my tail doing more now than ever before!

Redarrow you have my sympathies. I too was an only child and the pressure of always being expected to be there for an elderly parent can be very wearing. I found unloading on GN a great help as you can't have a good moan to people who're close to you and your mum. You're not alone.

I often feel like a contented cow lying in a sunny meadow - then I try to get up. Life would be perfect if it weren't for the arthritic knees, bad back, disintegrating teeth, vertigo, poor eye sight, saggy chins and surplus weight!

I try just to enjoy every day without looking ahead or back into the past. It's hard to do but if you can manage it then you won't worry about getting older.

Getting older...hmmm. It definitely has its benefits! When I go out, I can wear a coat and keep warm...not cool, but hey ho, I'm an oldie! I can afford the creams I should have bought to save my skin ageing...pity it's a bit too late!
I can go for lunches which offer two for £cheapo price and still be home in time for Emmerdale! And...government willing...I can look forward to taking long and exciting journeys using my bus pass! Can't wait!

I'm enjoying getting older, I find the small things don't bother me like they used to. I'm loving the extra time now I'm not working, being able to spend time with grandchildren and family and enjoying travelling and hobbies.

My grandma stopped worrying about growing old when she hit 90. Before this, "death" was her favourite subject and she ended every family get together with the words "this will probably be the last time I will be here to see.............". Now she is almost 98 and is back to living life each day as it comes, without worrying about tomorrow or indeed next year. I think she has finally accepted that you are as old as you are and as young as you want to be.

I'm happy with growing older - the alternative doesn't bear thinking about! (And hopefully is a few years off yet!)

I worry a lot about the time I have left with my children now, which I didn't when I was younger.

Frightened. If my health failed. How quickly time passes, I feel I am rushing headlong into the unknown!

My mum used to look in the mirror and laughingly ask "Who's that old lady!" Now I know how she felt and it's quite scary!

I`m not taking too easily to growing older, admittedly- my dad died a year ago, leaving my mum much more needy & depending on me far more than she had ever done. I`m an only `child` so, despite support from my husband, I`m finding taking her to appointments, etc, etc, quite difficult on times. I also have 2 children & 2 grandchildren, & don`t see them as often as I`d like. I`m less able to do as much as I did, so the typical `sandwich generation` I think! Having said that, we try & go abroad every year- a good dose of sunshine is still my cure all!

I like the idea of getting older, your more relaxed with lots of things, your more understanding with some, and the rest you put up with it.

I am contented at getting older as I can spend lots of time with my wonderful husband and best friend, being retired means being together, we are lucky to still have each other.

Retirement means throwing away the clock, everything is at my pace with the luxury of finally using my creative side. Got my life back on my terms couldn't be better.

loved and agree with this message on a greetings card

'Growing older is compulsory - maturing is optional'

Looking back at photos of my younger self, I am aware that I was much more attractive than I ever thought I was at the time.

One downside to getting older is you have to attend a lot more funerals and not so many weddings and christenings.

Now I'm retired it's lovely to be able to wake up naturally instead of being jarred awake by the alarm clock. However, I still wake early, just in a more gentle fashion.

I have very mixed feelings about getting older.

The best thing has been becoming a nanny. My 4 grandchildren are the light of my life, and if I had to age to get them then they are worth every wrinkle and grey hair!

My children no longer being dependent on me is a mixed blessing. I have a new found independence and freedom which is lovely, but having raised 4 children I feel lost without them all at times.

The increased chance of health problems plays on my mind too. I keep as fit and active as I can to minimise my risks, as I want to still be running around after them all when my great-grandchildren come along!

i worry more about people around me growing older!

A thought which occurred to me today - 15 years ago I was running a busy house with one at school and two at university with a healthy, working husband : life was good and full and happy. Today the children have gone, the husband is dead and if I look forward 15 years, OMG I will more than likely be a great Granny shuffling along on a zimmer or even worse, pushing up the daisies............

I don't like the aches and pains of getting older or the wrinkles or age spots.

Getting older has taught me the importance of simplifying my life as much as possible. De-cluttering my home and mind has made an incredible difference to the way I think and feel and has given me a wonderful sense of freedom.

Aaarrgh!!!!! My mother is in my mirror.

Life is an adventure, I believe age is not important, how you feel is what matters and I still feel young, after all it's our body's that age our minds just get wiser.