No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.
Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.