“When I am 40, I will have lost my will to live over 20 years prior. I simply wait to die every day. Occasionally I try to do things I think I might enjoy, only to be proven wrong.”
This is me at 30 tbqh
Use it or lose it people. I’m over 40 and I’m quite fit and healthy. Do lots of walking, running, rock climbing, golf, and enjoying nature.
I’m in better health than my younger friends simply because I’m more active. See dudes in their 70’s climbing harder than me still and in great shape. You’ve just got to keep moving.
Hearing people younger than me talk about how their bodies are falling apart is surreal. I do basically the bare minimum in terms of nutrition, exercise a bit daily, and I feel basically the same as I did in my 20s. Maybe better even because I’m not underweight.
What if I wanna sit on the couch and eat pizza?
You do you bro, this message is for anybody or nobody
Tbf when I was 8-9 years old I thought that 14 year olds were fully grown adults.
This but it just keeps on going.
8? 15 = adult
15? 25 = adult
25? 35 = adult
I have income, a job, a car, a place to live. I dont feel like an adult yet.Same here, save a car. I am also waiting for that magical moment when “you will understand when you grow up”. Welp, how much more growing do I have to do to reach that magical understanding
that some grown-ups are toxic moronsuntold mysteries of the universe35? 45 = adult over 40? I am supposed to be an adult? That doesn’t sound right.
Heard an interview one. The man said that at 20 he could imagine being 40, and at 40 he could imagine being 80. He was 67 at the time…
Same
Those kids nailed it.
I met one of my neighbors kids the other day. They’re new to the neighborhood so we were talking about the ages of his family members compared to mine. He just turned 6. I asked how old his dad was and he said 50 or 60. I could see his dad across the yard and he’s definitely younger than me. I asked how old he thought I was and he said 70. I’m 36. Kids can be meaner on accident than assholes are on purpose.
I’m about to turn 40, it’s all true
Just wait until 40. It’s like going down a step with your eyes closed without knowing the step is coming. Very jarring and painful.
I am ded 💀
Found the 50 year old.
Aging sucks. I think with the tremendous computing resources presently wasted on vapid AI slop and endless fart videos, we could instead use it for anti-aging research.
anti-aging research.
I mean, there’s plenty of anti aging research going on. It’s just that aging isn’t any one thing. At the genetic level, telomeres are getting shorter and mutations are accelerating. In cells, certain metabolic waste products accumulate, and the cells experience increased oxidative stress.
At the tissue level, you see blood vessels stiffening up, accumulating calcium deposits in the vessel walls themselves, and arterial plague within the vessels. Conversely, bones lose strength and lose calcium, and muscles and joints and tendons and ligaments deteriorate in strength and range of motion. Skin loses elasticity. Plaques and other abnormalities form in the brain and throughout the nervous system. The endocrine system undergoes changes as the hormonal balance of people changes in late adulthood (most notably menopause in women).
Each of these effects of aging is being investigated, researched, and potentially treated. Dermatologists can make old skin look younger, or at least slow down the rate of apparent aging. There are pills that give 60 year old men the boners of a 20 year old. Some hormone therapies reverse some of the age-related decline in particular hormone levels. Each treatment treats its own thing, reversing or stalling one tiny aspect of aging.
And they’re continuing to work on it. There’s plenty of research being done, with lots and lots of funding behind it.
That research will only ever benefit the rich though.
Let’s just say that even if you where immortal, there is still the issue of your “soul” aging. In other words, you know you are old, and you won’t enjoy playing Pokemon Platinum in the same way.
Society will also increasingy isolate you in various ways.
Fear mongering nonsense. Did anyone feel that way when infant mortality went way down?
You’ll have other people the same “old” as you to hang out with. Many people say they “feel 25” inside, well guess what, now we can make your body align with that.
We already have “anti-aging” compared to how people aged, say, two hundred or two thousand years ago.
Besides, “immortality” is an absolute, you can always choose to unalive yourself if you feel so strongly about Pokemon Platinum. No Greek-style tragedy of the “immortal” who can’t kill themselves.
Seems to me there is a lot more in life that can be enjoyed with a few extra centuries.
Or even better, a Logan’s Run style of extended youth for your “allotted” four score and ten, then poof! Carousel. No aging, no senescence, no frailty, sickness, disease, waning sense and shrinking brains, just extended 20-something for 60 years, then ZAAP!
I’ll take that over the meandering aging nonsense of how I’m supposed to revel in my aging carcass.
PS: There is no soul. Just complex patterns in a vat of neurons.
Ok. All that just to tell you I’m 29, and get asked occasionally what grade I’m in. I’d know. I can already see all the anti-aging interventions, but I feel like I missed out on something permanently. Like nothing can make up for that fact.
And that is why I’m going to compensate by being a glorious warrior. I have nothing else left.
Knew a fellow who had a similar look. He’d go into the bars and hand the hottest woman there a $20 and ask her to buy the drinks because he was afraid of getting carded. Most of the time they enjoyed the idea of corrupting an innocent and paid for his drinks.
Priceless. I can drink a certain hard drink casually…Thank you for giving me ideas
To be fair, my buddy has been doing this for a while. Baby steps.
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I’d rather be isolated than dead.
Not saying I’d rather be dead (oftentimes I would), but there’s some things money, time, and success can’t fix. Like for example: if you fuck a goat, you are a goat fucker for life.
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Plus if you get dementia. But there would have to be always a trace, right?
Depends. Will I still have my glasses, now that I have time to read all the books in the library?
Naah, it’s not nearly smart enough to do that yet.
Not gonna happen, humans don’t prioritize like that.
They’ll make slop and scams in desperate attempts to justify taking their share of the produce from the mechanized fields.
I remember SETI@home and folding@home… SETI I think is a dead end, but understanding our genome and proteome and how constantly recycled ageless atoms somehow manage to encode “age” is something I really want to know.
I’m 40 and my body is literally falling apart and in an hour or so I’m going to my local urgent care for internal bleeding they’re probably going to send me to the ER for.
So yeah, these kids were pretty much spot on. No wrinkles though. So I’ve got that going for me.
Second one is spot on.
This checks out.
My co-worker running ahead of me at 40, looking like the happest person there:
That guy really is obnoxiously beautiful.
Your username is intriguing
You’re right! That username IS intriguing, TacoButtPlug
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Yours is troubling
Also delicious.
… …look here you little shit
These kids are now mods and top contributors for murderedbywords.
Jesus I wish I was 40 again…
