The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
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As you get older, you do just get tired.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
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.
We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.
With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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