Getting old is what you make out of it: Attitude is everything

Facing senior years is not much different than other challenges in life. Use common sense. Change what you can, but accept what you can't - and make the best of it. Attitude is everything. What is most important? Be yourself. Approach every moment with a wholehearted attitude of positive spirit, kindness, and optimism. Cultivate the moment. Accept both despair and joy as a part of your aging journey. That's life! Surprisingly, researchers found out that our happiness can increase at senior age when we find the right attitude. Appreciate your age, your situation, and the thousands of unique, sometimes life-altering experiences you made throughout the decades of your life. Doesn't this make you grateful, accomplished, and happy? Everybody is young once in a lifetime, but only the lucky ones get old. For most of us, being "old" is associated with all kinds of attributes such as being weak, boring, and lonely. Rarely do we encounter someone who is trying to age with grace. Being graceful is not trendy in our superficial, surface-only-oriented, youth-dominated world. What is "grace" anyway? It comprises several properties like dignity, decency, style, elegance, beauty, ease, and agility. Who doesn't like to age with grace? Everybody does.