How is it so far? …Is it all cracked up to be what you thought it might be?
Have you changed in any way? Have you become a nicer person, or a worse person…or just about the same?
Is life now, like what you thought it would be and you’re pleasantly surprised, or are you very disappointed?
Are you more grumpy, or sweetness and light?
Have you become boring, or outrageous in your personality and views? Or just stayed the same?
Please tell me, l’d love to hear… or read even!
I am about the same as I’ve always been, except an inch shorter.
I’ve never suffered fools, gladly or otherwise, and one of my regrets is my inability to find acceptably affordable insurance for a large motorcycle once I past my 75th birthday. I had no choice but to sell her onwards to a younger biker 
Hi
It is certainly different to that I had planned.
Covid, heart attacks, the ban on travelling, has made retirement very different.
You adapt, you change and make the most of it.
I have my small house, my fish tank and my garden.
I still grow my own and cook.
My travelling is restricted to within 30 miles of an ICU.
I still have my brain and Yorkshire sense of humour.
All in all not bad, just different.
I still have a lot of the storage container to sort out and sell, something I enjoy.
I’m not sure what I expected. I certainly don’t feel my age. That may be because I have no health issues.
Age is just a number. It’s how you feel in your head that matters.
I dont think I’ve changed I’m still the same as I’ve always been (wether that’s good or bad)
I don’t think I’m grumpy I like to have a laugh I have a silly sense of humour which I don’t think I can change 
Age is just a number.
Younger than Springtime me 
True but it comes with aches, pains, failing eyesight and memory, and a body that is starting to fall apart. 
I feel just the same as I always have. Lie in bed to wake up and think over what I’d like to do today. Not always possible when I get up though because of health issues, they are something I never gave a thought to and I took them really badly. I do manage most things but slower than I would like. I need a help up onto my Clydie these days and Himself won’t let me take her out on my own…Just incase. That really frustrated me at first but I’m used to it now.
Its much as I thought it would turn out, I’m just shy of the age my dad passed away at, that to me is a target, still my attitude these days after two mini strokes is I wake up then the rest of the day is a bonus if I can keep managing that I may have cracked this living bit.
Interesting question Art I find peoples life stories fascinating . I have had 5 lifes in my lifetime and all very different , these last years are my final lifetime i hope .Each experience I have had has been totally different. I’m not the same person I once was . Everyone of those lifes has made me stronger and in the life I now have I have learned to live alone quite happily . It’s not what I hoped and life hasn’t turned out how I hoped it would but it is what it is . I’m young in my ways love to have fun , I am my own person and very independent and I’ve certainly lived life and seen and done so much . I dont look into the future I live one day at a time now and I dont look back .
Waiting for a phone call from the doctor tomorrow
I’ll let you know then…
Primus, l hope it’s good news…
Susan, Another four lives and you’ll be classed as a cat!!
Seriously, l think from what l’ve read of your life on here, could make a good book!
I can feel a rhyme coming on … A cat called Sue, what did she do? 
Now let me think what rhymes with ‘do’? … 
A Tom called Blue?
Aside from my skin’s war on my ego (seriously, can we get some slowing on this process so as not to offend?). I feel like I can finally take the accelerator off life and coast a little bit, and enjoy the fruits of rearing kids and work. Whether it’s that internal drive or societal pressures, all of a sudden I don’t feel like the world has high expectations for my productivity, so I can do what I want to do more than what I need to do.
There is something too about enjoying a lifetime of skills and knowledge that one picks up over decades. I am so much more confident about cooking, DIY, gardening and a host of other things that almost seem natural that were once much more challenging to do. It feels so good not to be in such a hurried and harried rush all of the time.
Everything just seems easier (though admittedly a little achier). Even the mellowing that comes with calming hormones is better. All of a sudden, that desire to want more, more, more of everything is replaced with contentment and peace.
I savor everything and am much more amazed by the little miracles that surround us. They are everywhere!
Aging is much, much better than I ever expected.
The thing I have most noticed about getting old is the divergence between mind and body. The me inside my head now bears very little resemblance to the me on the outside of it. 
Oh I just love this! 
Have I reached my later years? If I have, it happened when I wasn’t looking.
I think I’ll keep not looking for as long as I can.
Were you part of the Spanish Inquisition in a previous life! 
Should I be watching out for men in black bearing ducking stools etc.,
