You don’t need to think wistfully about time gone by as you grow older. Each decade brings fun firsts, new milestones. Keep your years open
There are many dispiriting things about getting older. Your joints creak, your brain slows , your eyesight weakens, your hair thins, your waist thickens. But what I find most dispiriting of all is how there are so few firsts in your life after you hit your forties and fifties.
Turning 60 and older brings the next lot of fun firsts. You could start a podcast with your neighbours as the characters do in Only Murders in the Building (2021-).
In Game of Thrones (2011-2019) the elderly matriarch of House Tyrell, Olenna Tyrell (right) and her granddaughter Margaery have the same grit and aspirations, though they are decades apart.In Rick & Morty (2013-) too, the two are quite similar, though their age gap is huge.