Mudcat has a lot of "Mature" members. Me being one of them. I think of myself as a high-mileage model. And as we get more mileage on us, we end up in the garage for increasingly major repairs more often. It's easy enough to see what is lost as we age. But with all that is lost, much is gained. Everyone has their own take on the trade-off of ageing. It's easier to be positive, if you keep your health and a semblance of your vitality. But, it's not impossible to be positive, even if you've lost far more than most of us have. My wife and I visit a woman with MS who in recent years has been reduced to lying in bed in a room converted into a bedroom, in her garage. She has lost all use of her hands, to the point where she can't even operate the TV remote. Her sister takes care of her, and in the last year has had major surgery for cancer, and most recently came very close to dying with a major heart attack. Yet, when we visit them, they are some of the most upbeat, thankful people we know.

So, where is the good in ageing? I see a lot of it. I look at teenagers, facing a violent world where it is increasingly difficult to make a decent living without a far higher education than they are ever going to get. And I am thankful that I am not facing such uncertainty. As I get older, I see more that we all have in common, and enjoy people I might have felt no connection to thirty years ago.
As you age, you can hopefully take pleasure in smaller pleasures... the sun breaking through the clouds on the horizon, or the frost on the lawn in the morning. Life gets simpler.

Anyone on here enjoying new pleasures that go with ageing?

Older and enjoying life more...