With age comes wisdom – until someone takes your parking spot

Blaise Tapp's view on life in the UK today

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As a younger man, I never really understood why my elders were so obsessed with age and why they insisted on referencing their advancing years.

Now that I'm marching towards my half century, I understand this obsession completely.

Being self aware enough to know that there are some things you shouldn't be doing out of your 20s-skateboarding immediately springs to mind - is no bad thing.

The number one trick to getting older is to enjoy the perks that a lifetime of experience brings and not to take oneself, or other things in life, too seriously.