Which is why my dad said “Growing up is highly over rated.”. Growing old is almost always a delight, especially compared to the alternative.
With a decade plus on you, life is a rolling journey, with beauty everywhere, all one needs to do is look for it.
The child remains in us, we are only as old as we feel and that can be very old and worn out and still be in our teens or later on.
As the Romans said “Don’t let the bastards get you down”