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Is there advantage to get older? As we get older, our physical conditions obviously get worse compared with younger people. We get sick more easily, our brain abilities become weaker and we can no longer work as we used to in our young days. What is that if there are things we acquire more as we get older? I think there are three things. 1. We can imagine others feelings more easily because we’ve experienced more than when we were young. For example, we’ve experienced fears, failures, conflicts between others, bullyings and so on. These negative experiences enable us to understand the feelings of others in difficult situations. 2. We can expect our futures more clearly. When we were children, we didn’t know what would happen in the future, how we would become in the future. The world and the future were obscure and covered with some positive dreams. Now, however, we have more information, we know more about what we are, what we can do and what we cannot do. We know more about the world and the society we live in. We know our parents stories, relatives stories and many other stories about what may happen in the future. So we can plan more clearly our life plan. 3. We can behave better socially. We know how to get along with people well and can control our emotions better than before. These are things which I think are advantages compared with younger people. If you have any opinions, please leave me your comment.

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Is there any advantage to get older?

As we get older, our physical conditions obviously get worse compared with/to younger people. We get sick more easily, our mental abilities become weaker and we can no longer work as we used to in our younger days. What is that we acquire more as we get older?

I think there are three things.

1. We can imagine others feelings more easily because we have experienced more than when we were young. For example, we’ve experienced fears, failures, conflicts between others, bullyings and so on. These negative experiences* enable us to understand the feelings of others in difficult situations.**

2. We can see our futures more clearly. When we were children, we did not know what would happen in the future, what we would become in the future. The world and the future were obscure and covered with some positive dreams.
Now, however, we have more information, we know more about what we are, what we can do and what we cannot do.*** We know more about the world and the society we live in. We know our parents' stories, relatives' stories and many other stories about what may happen in the future. So we can plan things more clearly.

3. We can behave better socially. We know how to get along with people well and can control our emotions better than before.

These are things which I think are advantages compared to/with younger people. If you have any opinions, please leave me your comment.

*or, bad things..

**or, ... in hard times

***or, what we can and cannot do. Your version is also very good but rarely said. 

Very well written!

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When you're getting old you've had passed through things away harder than just learning another language, and it's make everything easier. Great topic Miki
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The topic should be "Are there any advantages of getting older?". :)

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