Good things about getting older...

I'm 43. I differ from my 20-year-old self in the following ways:

I no longer think I'm immortal.
I don't care that I'm not immortal.
I don't have to go out every weekend night to enjoy myself.
I get as much sex as I want.
I don't care about being famous.
My parents are much wiser now - they were idiots 25 years ago!
If I'm naked in a hot tub with friends, I can just enjoy the hot tub.
I can afford stuff.
Waitresses call me Sir... I sorta like that.
I have no desire to do cocaine again.
I've come to know (largely) what I don't know.
There are huge areas of knowledge I'm now comfortable being totally ignorant of.
I'm now openly gay to everyone - I really don't care what they think of it.
I've learned that politics and purity are conflicting ideals.
I can wear pants without worrying about how they make my ass look.
I'm MUCH better at sex.

Now that I'm 35, I feel 20 again. It's the weirdest thing. Maybe it's that I'm changing careers, or maybe it's the company I keep. I don't know...

The first 100 years are the hardest... after that it's depends and gerbers.... not a bad alternative.

the number of attractive women increases.

I thought it would change.

When I was 18, I liked 18 year old guys.

Now I'm 43. I like guys from 18 to 50.

has gone from barely legal to about 25. Younger than that and the mind isn't developed. There's another effect- I am no longer attracted merely bythe physical. If there is no mind attached to the person I'm not interested.

Eye candy everywhere! Now I know why all those old guys hang out at the mall!

I'm only 26 but already I can relate to some of those on your lists.

in my old age.

Oh, and the cocaine one.... I did cocaine ONCE after the open heart surgery (age 29). I have a metal valve that ticks like a clock.

Listening to that thing RACE after a line.... I never want to go there again.

I think it largely depends on who I'm around. I relate more closely to my 30-something Gen X peers than I do to most people in their 20s.

I did a cosmetics focus group recently ($) and I was the oldest by about four years, but it felt like a couple of decades. ("Wow, you're like almost 30!")

I'm actually not too different from my 18-year-old self, except I'm not a student and not broke. And I stopped smoking pot and smoking cigarettes a long time ago, and don't really miss either.

I now prefer real wine to Boone's Farm, and I'll drop $200 on dinner before I'll drop $200 on entertainment (not that I had $200 when I was 18). I don't get carded anymore unless the store got busted recently; I get called m'am and sometimes it bugs me when I don't. Same with getting called by my last name -- I'm still not fond of being called "Mrs." but I don't like the familiarity some people take (like when they read the name from my credit card and call me "Stace" or something. Blech.)

But I've always had a good relationship (give or take, normal teenage BS) with my parents.
I'm married to the guy I was dating when I was 18. I still don't like not knowing things. I was a little adult when I was 10...and I'm finally catching up.

I feel older than I should physically, at times (I'm woefully out of shape), and I tend to get along much better with people a decade or two older than a decade younger.

You're a wise man my friend.

-- Allen

there is absolutely nothing good about getting older.

If you're in a career where youth means everything, I can understand that position.

But I will bet anything that Cher wouldn't want to be 20 again.

Your body starts falling apart!

that's true. The good news is that you realize the head is more important than the body.

Can't quite get the job done, but can go on for hours. It can be quite frustrating at times. Yeah.

"there aren't as many of them but they last longer"