Linda
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- Jul 30, 2020
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Everyone is different. My two best decades were my 20s and 50s. My 60s would have been quite good too, except that they were blighted by chronic fatigue. That has now gone, thanks to a very smart doctor, and I don't know how my 70s will turn out. (I'm 70 now.)I just need to know. To the older people on this site: Does it steadily get worse the older you get? Is it a steady decline after a certain peak or does it go up and down? At what age would you say you "peaked" and why?
It's not a simple matter of peaking somewhere in mid life and then declining. That is true for physical fitness, but not for overall life experience. It's much more complicated. As you age you lose some things, but gain others. (For example, on the negative side, I don't have much of a sex life now. I would like one, but my husband is roughly the same age as me, and it's just not possible. On the plus side, I'm much more at peace - with myself and with other people - than I once was.) The main disadvantage of getting old is that eventually your health starts to fail, but until you reach a point of having serious health problems there is no reason why life can not be OK, or even good.
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