The worst part of growing old is that most of your friends are doing it too. I say most, because a bunch of them are already dead. In fact, that's the real drag. And while you can certainly make new friends, you can't make new old friends.
The other thing about aging is that you and your also-old friends spend most, if not all, of your time together catching up on everyone's ailments, surgeries, treatments, hospital stays and doctor visits. This at least has one benefit, which is finding out that someone else has it worse than you, or just as bad, which lets you stop thinking, "Why me?"
Hollywood stars are hiding the truth of their lives behind facelifts, tummy tucks, liposuction, body sculpting and Botox injections, but believe me, they're all in the same boat. You can bet that new hips and knees go along with those more glamorous elective surgeries.
And that's it. Otherwise being old is just like being young, only quieter.
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