Your body is slowing breaking down. Your responsibilities only go keep going up as you age. Overall, things get harder.
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I feel like this is more of a U shape curve. It’s hard to be a child, early adulthood is poverty and struggle, then things get easier, I am nearing 60 and still in these easier years, then at the end things start falling apart and it gets difficult again.
Also due to aging either your work responsibilities increase or you get age discriminated out of your preferred role, if you started a family you also have to worry about providing for your dependants now and as you said your health is on a decline
Yep. That’s why I’m speedrunning heart disease.
It depends on genes, what kind of people you keep around you, how much money you earn, hygiene, exercising and food.
Life can be easy if you put daily effort into it instead of reacting to problems.
Nope then you just get overwhelmed with your lack of access to basic necessities because our society is structured to where, if you do not overwhelm yourself with arbitrary responsibility for the sake of generating profit for owning class bastards, you apparently haven’t “proved” that you “deserve” to live.
There are plenty of very happy old people. I’ve watched my parents flourish as they age. My great uncle always talked about making the last year’s of your life the best years of your life. I don’t know if they were for him, but he was still dancing until the cancer took him last year at 94. Yeah we all fall apart and die, but you’re best days can easily be in your 70s or later.
Every new decade is my favorite, but the shoulder and knee issues suck.
Tips from an old person-
When they tell you that you need reading glasses, just go for the contacts.
Podiatrists are real and a $75 orthotic is worth it.
Adult children are awesome, mostly.
Sunscreen is important.
Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner, and many employees who don’t make it into management have to leave their job because of age discrimination or health issues at some point before pension, at which point the usually get a job that requires fewer qualifications and thus usually comes with fewer responsibilities.
Yes but at that point, your body is at it’s weakest stage too.
It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
Also, retire early
Lol, what a pipedream. People these days are lucky to be able to retire at all.
True, the implied was “if you can”.
Yes, but the process of breaking down, as you mentioned, can be slowed down by eating healthy and exercising regularly, such as walking for at least an hour a day. For example, when my grandfather was in his 70s, he could easily climb a mountain, whereas I struggled. He had a lot of energy at that age and could walk for hours without stopping.
Your body breaks down faster if you become inactive as a pensioner.
I have been told that the muscles change with age to become more “resistant” and less “explosive”. Meaning that as people age they have less explosive force but they can do exercise for longer. That’s why a lot of people get into running when they are 50.
Holy crap this is true but it makes it hard to run. I am great at yoga, have stability and strength, I do lift sometimes too, but so much slow twitch, losing agility and bounciness.
So far this is the closest comment to my thoughts:
- With age also brings wisdom and experience, which theoretically lets you skip much of the bumps, hurdles and difficulties that you probably fell prey to as a younger person.
- It also brings a better ability to understand the latest science in terms of healthy living, which would tend to suggest that you exercise on a regular basis, eat certain diets, and take better care of yourself in various ways.
- You have your years of prior life to theoretically build social networks, contacts, and support groups, and form relationships with people who best fit your needs and personality.
- You have those years to better understand your weak spots, blind spots, get counseling, and work on improving many different skills and areas of your life.
- Just about everyone develops health issues of one sort or another, and some of them take real persistence to suss out. So you also have those years of doctors and specialists visits to get them properly treated, alongside other tools such as genetic testing, etc.
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Think of it as leveling up.
I knew there was a reason why I kept that save from 15 years ago
