Watching all of your heroes die.
Your body has a slow self destruct mechanism embedded in it and it starts ticking in middle age. Your body doesn’t get broken down because it’s old, it’s broken down because it’s programmed to do so.
goddamn telomeres at it again (or not)
Most people in their 40s are concerned about their plans for retirement are on track when they should be worried about their telomerase.
Spending so much time going to medical appointments.
Spending so much time going to medical appointments.
Spending so much time
going toIN THE WAITING ROOM for medical appointments.FTFY
Doctors are always on their own schedule.
Perimenopause. Sheesh, warn a girl! (And her significant other).
Prioritize your health. Living on energy drinks and pizza’s looks fine in your twenties but then you head towards your fourties and you take meds for things like hypertension and fight a neverending war against your waist size.
Having to answer these questions.
You have to make life choices
Be wary of burnout. That shit takes years to recover from.
Can confirm. Do not recommend.
I’m thinking of moving from my higher paying career field to one that will pay me a nearly break even salary (for this living area) because my heart just isn’t in this anymore. Talking days of staring at the screen and not doing anything. Feels bad yo.
I’m thinking of moving from my higher paying career field to one that will pay me a nearly break even salary (for this living area) because my heart just isn’t in this anymore.
How close are you to retirement? If you increased savings from [high paying career], how much longer would you have to work at it before you could stop working altogether?
Not close to retirement. Can’t save because of family debt that I didn’t accrue. If I was solo I would lean fire my way into a nice small house somewhere to chill but that ain’t happening.
It really sucks having young people getting on your lawn.
Unironically?
I mean, it’s a surface designed to be walkable. Wait until someone drives on it.
A global pandemic into a sustained recession and silent great depression will derail all the outcomes you’d built momentum towards in earlier life. You will never really fully recover. Whatever you do gain back will be a shadow of what was going to be.
So try to plan ahead for that, Kiddo.
It’s the curse of time that the elder generation only has life lessons for what they went through and the younger generation will live through new things that no one had even imagined possible. So every generation has to figure it out for themselves. Our parents educate us for a world that will not exist when we grow up.
Sounds wise, but that’s a cop out though. The general lessons are almost always universal. Don’t stockpile vaccines for the omicron variant of covid, sure - that won’t occur again as viruses evolve, but…
- don’t dismantle pandemic preparedness procedures within government/healthcare
- do have a ready inventory and rapid response manufacturing and supply chain ready for PPE production/distribution
- don’t count on the general public to be reasonable and selfless in their response to a global threat
- do count on the wealthy, and the media they own, downplaying severity and pressuring you to risk your life for their uninterrupted profit.
ETC, ETC, ETC.
Nobody serious prepares their children for the exact scenarios they saw, they generalize what’s valuable and then finish by teaching them to be ready to realize that you may be in an entirely different situation, and that will be scary, but if you slow down, you’ll realize that there’s likely plenty you can take from my experience for helpful shortcuts.
mental pain is silently being replaced by physical pain
The mental pain doesn’t just go away, though.
You aren’t getting any more teeth, so take care of the ones you have.
Stress produces cortisol. Cortisol reduces your empathy.
Like Casandra, knowing the future won’t make you happy or get people to listen to you.
Intelligence is setting your medication to automatically arrive when you run out. Wisdom is having it arrive a week before you run out.
And your gums. Actually floss. No one wants to but your 60 year old self will thank you.
Wearing braces for the first time at 60, because my teeth decided to start moving around enough to affect eating. And it’s just getting worse from here. I brushed: no cavities ever. I have good health/genes: one root canal is my only tooth issue. But I hated flossing and rarely did, and my dentists pointed out gum health over the decades, so here we are
Like Casandra, knowing the future won’t make you happy or get people to listen to you.
I’m guessing most people on Lemmy have already experienced this.
Like I say at work: I’m here to share my knowledge and experience, not to be an Old Testament prophet. If you choose not to listen, it’s on you. And I keep minutes in case anyone asks “why didn’t you tell them?”
Not to belittle your point cause people should actively take care of their teeth but
Like Casandra, knowing the future won’t make you happy or get people to listen to you.
I wish you’d told me this years ago. I still struggle with needing to be proven right. It’s exhausting.
It’s still better to know than not know though, right? Right???
Cortisol reduces empathy
That makes a lot of sense
People who don’t take care of themselves can’t take care of others.
Stress produces cortisol. Cortisol reduces your empathy.
Thanks, needed that today, really helps.
The weight of the evil of the world never eases, only becomes more intense
Hemorrhoids
Getting older is great! You’ve been around long enough to see how some things change while others stay the same. You start to care more about some things and less about the rest. Every year is my favorite age! Except for the year i lost my mom- that was worst thing about aging.
