So I Am Getting Older

When you are young, you tend to think of yourself as immortal and as a result life may not mean much. Life is taken on a personal level and is a banquet on which we feast. But as you get older and begins to contemplate your end, mortality and the eventuality of death, values begin to shift - you can see more clearly what is really important and what is trivial. Problems are placed in a greater perspective and as a result are not taken so personally. Wanting what you don't have is seen as a waste of time as you realize that you have always had what was needed to get through - after all you made it to here.
And because death is the source of all egoic fears (as Tolle teaches) you begin to learn a new and freer fearlessness - not the bravado of youth but a fearlessness borne of having made peace with death itself. Life moves from a quest for personal survival to an experience of thriving, opening and surrendering. I guess aging isn't all that bad