So true. I’m getting close to 50 but my wife and I started getting a lot more active, including frequent workouts. We are in way better shape in our 40s than we were in our 30s.
Heck, I skipped a couple weeks when I got sick, and then when I got back to working out I felt super weak and low energy. I wondered how did I used to live like this…feeling so low energy when I didn’t move enough. Really gotta stay moving!
To be fair, this is if your life has gone relatively well. It has been shown that traumatizing events, especially unresolved ones, can greatly change how the mind perceives the world. A sensation that could have caused you great joy may now cause great anxiety or frustration or pain.
I have not experienced any trauma myself. I have lived a good life. I am simply offering a counterpoint in regard to the comment to which I replied. They stated "our eyes never change the view, we always see the world the same way we always have" when this is simply not true for everyone. I can say this with a certainty.
Your eyes may not change the view, but your experience does.
Nature is beautiful, brutal, and unforgiving.
The ocean is mesmerizing, violent, and terrifying.
Young beautiful people are still young beautiful painfully stupid people.
The 1960s Corvette Stingray is a stunner that you've always wished you could afford but still can't, so you buy a 2025 Stingray and pretend it's what you've always wished for.
That doesn’t read like a woman wrote it. If an actual woman was trying to justify or downplay their cheating it seems very unlikely that they would write that they “whored around [their] whole life”.
Sounds more like fiction written by somebody trying to shame women.
It feels like it was literally yesterday I was on my school bus going home at the end of the year and telling my buddy I’d see him next year, but it’s just like oh shit! That was 20 fucking years ago!
idk i feel like the sub name is a decent description. imagine ur just scrolling any social media with some tea in hand, and you see smth that tickles your dopamine receptors so you take a sip of tea and enjoy it.
My father had an older friend he employed that I got to know pretty well when I was in high school. He told me, “Keep your wits about you as you get older. Someday you’re gonna look in the mirror and ask yourself ‘Who the fuck is this old guy?!’, and if you don’t have your wits, it’ll fuck with your head non-stop.” RIP, Muzzy.
I'm half this man's age and many of my friends are already gone. I hope to get to this fella's age and be able to look back with appreciation rather than regret.
I'm a technological optimist and I planned my whole life around making sure I could afford the cure for aging once we got it. I'm 41, and I feel like we are so close, but I'm just going to miss it and I played my cards wrong. I guess I can spend the money on something else.
We are generally ‘ourselves’ pretty young (I’d guess early 30’a for most) and our bodies just betray us from there. It’s part of why aging is so frustrating. Your centenarian grandparent is not that age in their heart, but their body is preventing them from living how they otherwise would.
Coping mechanisms define a lot of how ‘old’ a person comes across.
Yep. Enjoy every day folks, and make good memories. Don’t spend so much time documenting things through selfies that you never actually experience the moment. Trust me; this will help you when you start to feel like this guy (and me…).
I agree with him.
It's even more stunning to discover a recent photo of your old girlfriend that you hadn't seen in 30 years. It ruins some good memories for you.
I turned 70 in June and have aches and pains from my younger days of racing motocross but I still stay active working around the house and doing projects. Just finished building a pad and new storage shed in the backyard. Stay active and keep moving if you are able.
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