Your body is slowing breaking down. Your responsibilities only go keep going up as you age. Overall, things get harder.
Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner.
The longer you live, the harder it becomes.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by zerozaku@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
zerozaku@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes but at that point, your body is at it’s weakest stage too.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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).
LetMeShowYouAThing@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are plenty of very happy old people. I’ve watched my parents flourish as they age. My great 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.
Today@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Mereo@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
- Etc...
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Think of it as leveling up.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew there was a reason why I kept that save from 15 years ago
thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget about capatilism. If you ain’t producing they don’t give a fuck about you. If you can’t produce high amounts of profits they will throw you out and leave you potentially homeless or In jail or dead. They don’t care.
voracitude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree, but for sightly different reasons. Life is collecting permanent injuries. No matter how good your diet, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how advanced medical technology gets, nothing that breaks will ever be quite the same.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Yep. That’s why I’m speedrunning heart disease.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yep, getting old is not for the weak… thing is my dad is 94 and holy fuck Ii is just time to fucking die…
medem@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
I consider keto to be a fad, and it can be dangerous if you have no competent nutritionist to guide you. Buuuuuuuuut…
I met a guy in one of my past office jobs. The guy looks 45, but is 60. Not only that, but he looks way younger than 10 years ago before starting the diet. He eats 20 grams of carbs a day (!) so that’s simply out of the question for me…
Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My grandpa always used to say, “aging ain’t for whimps.” Never really understood him until more recently as I age.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
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.