Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.
People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.
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.
I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.
I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
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.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
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