As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.