Becoming old sometimes seems to be a downhill slope, until you consider the alternative.
A look at the odds for your becoming old:
https://247wallst.com/special-repor...eople-are-left-from-the-year-you-were-born/2/
At age 82, jeanie and i have passed the midpoint. The slope is steepening.
FWIW, moving to our retirement community here in Illinois in 2004, and snowbirding to our over 55 community in Florida from our retirement in 1989 to 2013 made for the happiest years of our lives.
Yes we're "old"... a bit doddering, and subject to some "age related" frailties, but all in all, life is better than we ever expected, and memories fill in for those activities we can't participate in any longer. The bike rides have gone from 15 miles to a few trips around the block... Travel from 15 to 20K/yr., to about 2K, and tennis has been replaced with playing bridge. Swimming laps gave way to internet blogging, TV and an addiction to planning the world's future.
More than half of our friends are already gone, and that will increase very rapidly from now on. Half of our kids are either retired, or will be in the next few years.
We're happy, and very thankful for our thirty years of retirement and 60 years of marriage. It hasn't always been perfect, but most of the less than perfect times have been erased with the onset of dementia.
Oh, yeah.. and about the beds...
... None of your business!