I keep running across the phrase "Growing old sucks."  This statement is made by younger people.  I am a senior citizen, over seventy. and I tell you growing old does not suck.  It is fun, the alternative sucks.  Sure growing old has its sad times, its bad times, its disappoints, the times you wish you could change but it is has its loves, its pleasures, it successes.  It has its ups and downs.

Just stop and think about the alternative to growing old.  The nothingness that would exist.  If you are lucky someday you will be my age and older.  You would have had time to laugh and yes to cry.  You will have experienced life.  

I look back on my life with a reasonable amount of satisfaction.  I did things my way, made my own choices and my own mistakes.  There are things I wish I could change but on the whole I am happy with my life.   I have tried to live by the axiom of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  i have failed but pulled myself up and tried again.

I am very opinionated.  I have a very strong moral code but it is my code.  I do realize that it differs from other peoples.  I am also sensitive and can hold a grudge for a very long time.  I have a bad temper which I do try and control.  I believe in the importance of the individual and also the necessity of society to establish rules to govern the individual.

I do believe that morality outweighs the laws of society.  However if you decide that your morality demands that you break these laws you must be willing to face the and accept the consequences.  The rules of society are the oil that makes it possible for us to live together.    Rules can be wrong.  Rules can repress the individual, destroy freedom and the right to make our own choices.

As we grow older we do gain in experience.  This may or may not lead to greater wisdom.   One of the wisest people I know has not yet reached the age of twenty.  I have met people my age and older who have little wisdom.  The wise person knows that he or she knows very little.