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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'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!

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

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

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 ?

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)

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.

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 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!

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.

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

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!

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 !

I feel ok about getting old but, touch wood, am in reasonably good health. I enjoy having time in retirement to spend with family and friends.

I'm really quite happy being the age I am - I've spent all my life getting here, and now I've arrived I'm going to treat it like a holiday!

On the outside my knees hurt I wear comfortable clothes and flat shoes.
On the inside I am still the chorus girl and wear sequins,feathers and high silver sandals!

I am happy to get older if I can get wiser too!

The inside me hasn't aged a day since I was about 25, the outside me is somewhat ahead of that. That's the tough part I think, feeling the same but finding I can't do the same things and that others certainly see me differently. Lots of positives of course but do get frustrated that others seem to think my brain has aged along with my skin and hair!

It's the role reversal that gets me: my daughter often speaks to me as though I'm the child!!!

I enjoy knowing that some people see me as an 'interesting person' and a Wise Woman (in the sense of the Jungian archetype), and sometimes being able to see myself in those descriptions! And having grandchildren to care for gives me a 'second chance', a chance to do better than I did in bringing up my children.

Hhmm, it is a different stage of life, compromises to be made as always, but hey I dont have to keep up with anyone anymore, I am my own boss! I can do more or less as I please, in my time.

Getting older scares the living daylights out of me

I'm 37 yrs in my head until I look in the mirror and wonder who the old lady is looking back at me.

I don't mind too much that I'm getting older, the alternative's decidedly permanent! And of course, life experience is an asset that only comes with age, and in my work as a counsellor I find it invaluable.

The number doesn't matter, your state of mind, health and personal circumstances are probably far more important. I'm in a good place with a wonderful family, I enjoyed my 40s, 50s and now 60s - not at all sure about getting to 80s and even 90s though, but trying not to worry as it may never happen!