Letter: Getting older but I certainly don't feel it (1)

From Maggie Cobbett, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK

Thank you for your look at the ageing mindset. Although, at least according to this, I am already at the age when people start to acknowledge that they are old, I certainly don’t feel that way (18 May, p 32).

Maybe that is due in part to having a wide circle of friends, some decades younger than I am. They will never hear phrases like “in my day” from me. My only issue is when the perceptions of others get in the way of things I want to do.

Although I have never had as much as a speeding ticket in all the years I have driven, when asking about hiring a van, I found my age ruled me out. Car hire on holiday also gets harder with each passing birthday. Still, if I am able to carry on as long as my grandmother did, I have another quarter of a century to look forward to and I intend to make the most of it. I still see this very much as my day.