Getting older definitely has been a time of growth and improvements for me. In my 50's I went back to college for my M.A. in Art. Also, something interesting happened.... I gained the "perspective" of age, which helped me understand why I had made so many friggin mistakes all my life! Understanding why you behaved as you did, because of your history/upbringng, can be very liberating and it freed me from so much self-blame/recrimination. This, in turn, helped me stop repeating the cycle of the same behaviors/mistakes over and over (which I had done all the way thru my 40's and early 50's).

I'm 61 now, and so, while there are the typical physical changes with age, the positives for me have far outweighed the negatives!