Isn’t it funny how age creeps up on us? We spend so much of our time with our heads down just trying to get through our day-to-day work life, our social obligations, and the stress of being busy modern human beings, that we often don’t notice how quickly we’re ageing. But once in a while we have pause for thought and take stock of how we got here and what it means to be older.

I’m happy at 37 – well much happier than I was in my tumultuous twenties when I was constantly worrying about everyth...