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The negative changes to your body will have a greater impact, while the positive changes will come harder. What this means is you must work more to minimize the negative and benefit from the positive.
I gained as much as 20 lbs. of dead weight between my twenties and thirties. What did I do? I cut the crap. I stopped eating crap, I stopped treating myself like crap (oh, hey, sleep is good), I started exercising, etc.
The extra weight has come off despite exercise not having the same effect on my metabolism as it had in the past. Don't let it get you down. Just work harder, be more focused, if you want change or to stay healthy.
I am becoming increasingly low-key. I like spending time at home. I only like going out when there is something interesting I enjoy, or a new experience. I don't like going out "just because." I'm not sure if this is age-related, but it just might be. However, I was never really a thrill seeker.
Don't worry so much about "fading youth." Concentrate more on aging gracefully. Regardless, you are going to age anyway; you might as well do it right.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-29-2009 at 02:48 AM..
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