Has life gotten better or worse as you’ve gotten older?

Well, life generally tends to be a bell-shaped curve -- it keeps getting better financially, raising kids, that empty nest period where you return more to a single life with a more solid underpinning, until age and health issues and their impact hit. So far I would have to say that the latter downside of that bell curve has been more of a slowly sloping plateau than a sharp drop. Burying both my wife and subsequent partner and now living alone, serving two cats, while combating two forms of cancer have not been easy adjustments. Otoh, I am still fully active, fully mobile, in good financial shape, and have supportive kids and grandkids which a lot of -- if not most of -- those in my age bracket cannot say, if they are even alive to speak.