It’s a foregone conclusion that as you get older, your body begins to break down. You can’t run as fast, or as long, and you can’t jump as high. Everything becomes a little more difficult.
Your brain, however, doesn’t get worse as you get older; unless you let it. The connections that fire back and forth through your brain’s synapses are almost like little sparks that jump from neurotransmitter to neurotransmitter and these little highways of information can fall into disrepair. If you don’t use them and exercise them, that is.
If you exercise them and do cognitively challenging things, you can actually improve your brain’s function as you get older. Treasure your mind and do challenging things and reap the rewards as you grow older.