It's a genuine challenge to find a way to write about aging that doesn't make people turn away in droves, for many reasons.
Admittedly, the last chapter of the book of life has many challenges, discomforts, losses, and limitations. Add to this the fact that this culture worships staying young and fit and beautiful from cradle to grave, and seems to regard getting old as some sort of horrible disease process, not a natural part of the life cycle. In fact this society dreads aging so much we've set up a system of segregated senior housing for our elders, and hardly have to ever lay eyes on those old deteriorating bodies at all!!
But today I don't want to write about any of the "downsides" to getting old. Today I want to talk about some of the upsides of getting old.