How do people even manage to get to old age

[Suspect_Device]

There's just so many possibilities for physical, emotional, and financial ruin. My undoing (my neck) happened just by sitting in a fucking chair. Senior citizens must be riddled with pain, I don't know how they can keep going.

 

[DefinitelyReady]

There's just so many possibilities for physical, emotional, and financial ruin. My undoing (my neck) happened just by sitting in a fucking chair. Senior citizens must be riddled with pain, I don't know how they can keep going.

Yeah. My mom talks about how after 40 things started to go downhill. How she never understood as a child, even into adulthood why her grandparents etc were always riddled with aches and pains. It's unbearable watching her deteriorate after being a single mom working menial hard-laboring low wage jobs for 25+yrs, adding in additional health issues besides daily pain. That doesn't include the mental pain. I don't know what's worse: wearing down her spirit and optimism or her physicality. How we all don't just shut down from mental anguish and physical pain and become kinetically mute and physically catatonic, and just, shut down... is beyond me.

 

[_AllCatsAreGrey_]

So true. I'm currently 46. When I was in high school I was convinced I wouldn't make it to 20. Still here after several attempts. Suffering from a deteriorating body is horrific. I don't want to reach old age. Time passes so fast. Old age sneaks up on you.

 

[Cress]

So true. I'm currently 46. When I was in high school I was convinced I wouldn't make it to 20. Still here after several attempts. Suffering from a deteriorating body is horrific. I don't want to reach old age. Time passes so fast. Old age sneaks up on you.

Time passes As time tends to do. I was expecting to die much sooner as well. It was a fair assessment too considering my first attempts were as a teenager

 

[DefinitelyReady]

Yet you hear people being fitter in their 40s than in their 20s... Well they're afforded the time and money to devote to their bodies, were never seriously depressed or stressed, and aren't enslaved to their degrading and repressed jobs and family responsibilities. But by all means post about it like it can be done

 

[Myforevercharlie]

Yet you hear people being fitter in their 40s than in their 20s... Well they're afforded the time and money to devote to their bodies, were never seriously depressed or stressed, and aren't enslaved to their degrading and repressed jobs and family responsibilities. But by all means post about it like it can be done

Excuse me?
I'm 48, poor as a mouse, single teen mom, absolutely no future, did crummy shit jobs to get by


I feel a lot better now then when I did in my 20"s

Btw. Im diagnosed with bpd, depression, anxiety and ADHD.


Maybe think before you write down bs

 

[_AllCatsAreGrey_]

 

[whywhywhy]

There's just so many possibilities for physical, emotional, and financial ruin. My undoing (my neck) happened just by sitting in a fucking chair. Senior citizens must be riddled with pain, I don't know how they can keep going.

Imo generally as people get older they get more into autopilot mode. They become less rational and think less about life. They are also more accepting of things. Its a byproduct of the hecticness of life and time passing.

Just my 2 cents Im not even that old but I sometimes I realize I get caught up in the rutine of life.

 

[DefinitelyReady]

Yet you hear people being fitter in their 40s than in their 20s... Well they're afforded the time and money to devote to their bodies, were never seriously depressed or stressed, and aren't enslaved to their degrading and repressed jobs and family responsibilities. But by all means post about it like it can be done

Excuse me?
I'm 48, poor as a mouse, single teen mom, absolutely no future, did crummy shit jobs to get by


I feel a lot better now then when I did in my 20"s

Btw. Im diagnosed with bpd, depression, anxiety and ADHD.


Maybe think before you write down bs

Why are you just posting to just me? It's not my thread complaining about old age. Also I clearly didn't speak for ALL people, just a subset of those obnoxious posers' posters plastered all over social media. Are you one of them and that's why you're on my ass? You're always closing down threads because they get too "hot" yet you're taunting and provoking me, telling me to think because I talk bs? Hypocrite much...

I don't know why you're even posting if none of this applies to you dude. Wow. You just tried to imply why you deserve respect, yet now I have far less respect for you...

 

[Myforevercharlie]

Yet you hear people being fitter in their 40s than in their 20s... Well they're afforded the time and money to devote to their bodies, were never seriously depressed or stressed, and aren't enslaved to their degrading and repressed jobs and family responsibilities. But by all means post about it like it can be done

Why are you just posting to just me? It's not my thread complaining about old age. Also I clearly didn't speak for ALL people, just a subset of those obnoxious posers' posters plastered all over social media. Are you one of them and that's why you're on my ass? You're always closing down threads because they get too "hot" yet you're taunting and provoking me, telling me to think because I talk bs? Hypocrite much...

I don't know why you're even posting if none of this applies to you dude. Wow. You just tried to imply why you deserve respect, yet now I have far less respect for you...

I give a reaction on what you're posting.
Because I don't agree with what you're saying.


This applies to me dude. See my reaction.

This dude is a 48 yo female btw.

 

[Nikitatos]

If you don't have children or a career that you like, there's no point in getting old. It's all pain.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

They simply don't die prematurely. Any given point in the future will eventually be reached. a billion years in the future is, well, faraway but eventually it will get there.

 

[katara]

I always wondered this too, these are the types of people who probably have a big family and have acquired many things in life so they have no reason to not want to live long. Many people in there 90s want to make it to 100. Why not? They already did everything they wanted to, that's there last goal. All they do is watch tv and play games usually. Unless they are in a shitty nursing home then maybe they'd prefer to die.

 

[passivethought121]

Imo generally as people get older they get more into autopilot mode. They become less rational and think less about life. They are also more accepting of things. Its a byproduct of the hecticness of life and time passing.

Just my 2 cents Im not even that old but I sometimes I realize I get caught up in the rutine of life.

I also think this. I didn't think i would exist today when I was 14. But many parts of my life have been spent watching myself live.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Yeah, being old doesn't appeal to me whatsoever. As to how it happens though. I expect it's simply that we don't like pain. So- when more severe illnesses come along, we try and get cured rather than let them kill us slowly.

Like- I had gallstones years back. The first attack, I thought was a heart attack. I was fine with dying so, I didn't call for an ambulance. But hours later- I hadn't died (obviously!)13 excruciatingly painful attacks later and I couldn't cope with it anymore. A stone had moved in to the bile duct by then. Maybe it would have killed me eventually but it likely would have taken years.

So- it's the not knowing I suppose. We pick up health problems as we go but we don't know if they can kill us and how long they'll take and if the pain is too much but you still have to keep living (and working,) you're kind of forced to try and get it sorted out.

I suppose you could refuse treatment from a doctor but still ask for painkillers but I suspect they'd question why and then be concerned about the answer!

 

[DefinitelyReady]

I give a reaction on what you're posting.
Because I don't agree with what you're saying.


This applies to me dude. See my reaction.

This dude is a 48 yo female btw.

I already did see your reply, and responded accordingly.... Dude I obviously knew you were a woman but you're obviously not getting it... because I too thought your reaction was bullshit but whatever.

Yeah, being old doesn't appeal to me whatsoever. As to how it happens though. I expect it's simply that we don't like pain. So- when more severe illnesses come along, we try and get cured rather than let them kill us slowly.

Like- I had gallstones years back. The first attack, I thought was a heart attack. I was fine with dying so, I didn't call for an ambulance. But hours later- I hadn't died (obviously!)13 excruciatingly painful attacks later and I couldn't cope with it anymore. A stone had moved in to the bile duct by then. Maybe it would have killed me eventually but it likely would have taken years.

So- it's the not knowing I suppose. We pick up health problems as we go but we don't know if they can kill us and how long they'll take and if the pain is too much but you still have to keep living (and working,) you're kind of forced to try and get it sorted out.

I suppose you could refuse treatment from a doctor but still ask for painkillers but I suspect they'd question why and then be concerned about the answer!

Sorry to hear that. Had my gallbladder removed this year (at 32) and it sucked. Still have the same symptoms and those "attacks" are the worst pain I've ever felt. I still consider myself lucky compared to most people. But stuff, at least in Anerica, that is fixable, just totally isn't, and that applies to everything which has made my patriotism fall as I've gotten older.