Ask Lemmy

Pain.

You no longer don't feel pain. You just manage it.

staying fit and healthy takes effort.

when you're a kid, you're active. you heal fast.

when you're an adult, you are often sedentary, and injuries heal slowly. you have to work at it, either by choosing a lifestyle that facilitates it or by making time for it.

Watching my little babies run around the house as big kids is crushing the fuck out of my heart. I love them and they're all healthy and happy and that's great but holy fuck its going so fast and they're gonna leave me and idk what I'm gonna do. Brutal shit.

Rapid aging happens like growth spurts. Around 40-44 apparently again around 65. Small print becomes a problem, body does not handle alcohol as before, body aches and pains become constant. Exercise is essential, but a setback from an injury or sedentary lifestyle is difficult to escape from.

Something will wear out eventually. Once it wears out it will become surprisingly easy to injure.

Things change gradually and at some point you just realize they're gone. I am in pretty good shape, but injuries that used to heal quickly just linger now. I love to go out for drinks, but hangovers just hit so much harder now. I am basically in for two and will regret a third. I might actually be close to one then just soft drinks. I don't feel any different in my mind, but I have to accept that the machine can't keep up.

Slowly, all the ppl whose wisdom and advice you've relied upon your entire life disappear or die. Go be with them before they're gone.

Holy fuck those hormones are a source of unbelievable energy and getting to that feeling you get naturally in your 20s and part of your 30s takes a lot more effort.

Everyday, there’s always a problem to fix. Every fucking day. It can be something in the house that breaks suddenly. Or someone gets sick. Or a pebble causes a crack on your windshield. Or your internet service suddenly jacked up their rates and you have to call to threaten disconnection to bring it down again. Everyday. You can’t go a day without something to do or fix.

The constant sex, the extra money, the sudden inclination to dunk at basketball, watching your dick get larger, hair getting more vibrant, skin getting fuller, the daily blowjobs, the endless promotions, fast cars, things getting cheaper and more affordable, watching your parents benchpressing monster trucks...

People really don't give a fuck about you when your mental illness hangups are fucking with you, and you legitimately can't hang.

Your body starts breaking down long before you’re ready or expected, despite every warning you heard your whole life.

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.

The weight of the evil of the world never eases, only becomes more intense

Young people getting dumber.

Spending so much time going to medical appointments.

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 really sucks having young people getting on your lawn.

Your life isn't going to get better. Those old "It gets better." campaigns used to seriously piss me off. You are a slave to crapitalism until you die

You're getting tired. When you ride your bicycle, it always goes uphill, even when in fact you're going downhill. And the older you grow, the steeper it gets.

There's more of the past and less of the future.

Realizing that I what I know is that I know nothing.

when you hit about 45, your mental age is currentAge-20 years-ish but doing an activity associated with mental age can come with some surprising consequences, mostly unhappy surprises at that. But as you continue to age you start accepting who are and start making less stupid choices that are associated with how you mentally feel.