I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
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.
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.
I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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.
I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
You know how people say that young people feel immortal? I don't know what they're talking about. I was planning for how I would deal with my death in good conscience well before I even hit puberty.
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