What is the Most Difficult Thing About Getting Older? What is the most difficult thing about getting older? Getting older is tough. It is a transition from childhood to adulthood. It’s a time when you have to make many important life decisions. You have to deal with huge changes in your life. Within the change, it can have perks such as being respected, but with that comes difficulties like being responsible for my own life, health ability, and financial management. The most difficult thing about getting older for me is responsibility, being responsible for my own actions. As you grow older and older, there’s nobody to take care of yourself like how your parents did when you were a child. You get blamed for anything wrong you do and get punished, unlike before when you were a little child, and you could get away with stealing toys, and nobody could do anything about it. Being responsible refers to our ability to make decisions that serve our own interests as well as others’ interests. As you grow older, you have many tasks to complete such as finishing this five hundred-word essay by Friday or remember to go grocery shopping for your family. People around my age (15-19) have so many responsibilities for their studies because if we don’t get good grades or don’t have an opportunity to go to university, we don’t get hire, and things are going to be worse. We will not be successful in the future. Being responsibility is fundamental for all human beings because not only it