John Cleese narrated a TV series recently about the human face, and one thing he said in, I think, the final episode was striking. It was that the beauty of youth is something you're born with, but the beauty of an aged face is created by all the expressions, laughter, crying, etc. you've done through your lifetime. If you're a kindly, happy person it gets written all over your face in your lifetime. He showed the Dalai Lama as an example.
This kind of applies to all objects, I guess. Toys that are played with by generations of children age differently to something that's weather beaten, which ages differently to something that's neglected. It's something that really draws me to old objects and buildings... and people :)
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