A thread for those 30+ - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

wooÐs · 07-28-2009, 09:33 PM

It all started going downhill the day I turned 30... and it hasn't stopped.

I've put on weight.
I'm getting a belly. WTF???????? I was always known for 'the flatest stomach I've ever seen.' What the hell is this shit????
I've become bitchier - less tolerant of crap.
I have no interest in catty, female gossip bs. If you have something to say about someone, say it to her face. Only then will I be interested. In watching.
I LOVE spending Saturday nights alone. Sunday too. Best TV nights of the week.
Truth? I don't like going out anywhere. It's a waste of money and it's not as safe as it once was. All kinds of fucktards are on the roads these days - including cops.
So one day when I was 32, I was peeing on da' potty rite? I look down and see something strange --- go to brush it away. And it's not brushing away. It's a mother fucking gray pubic hair ffs. Granted I shave but it had been a week or so. I thought it was a dog hair at best. omg /die.

I CANNOT be the only one noticing changes while getting older. Make me feel better and post some worse ones. ..............please.

Charlatan · 07-28-2009, 10:39 PM

Change happens.

I put on a lot of weight when I was in my early 30s. Not huge just over weight. There are number of reasons why: kids, work, stress, etc.

I am now 41 and have dropped the excess weight. I am also finding a better balance of work, family and a social life. Things I had trouble balancing in my 30s.

Change happens.

uncle phil · 07-29-2009, 02:00 AM

you're graduating...

Baraka_Guru · 07-29-2009, 02:45 AM

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.

mixedmedia · 07-29-2009, 03:40 AM

I didn't start to really notice these changes until 40 and, like you said, it seemed to happen on my 40th birthday - weight gain, impatience and, for me, my skin texture changed and I became more achy and less agile than I was before.

Then again, I am also much more confident than I was when I was younger and feel I have a much better grip on who I am and what I want. I wouldn't trade that for anything. So, I accept all the changes and enjoy feeling more comfortable in my own (older) skin.

Iliftrocks · 07-29-2009, 03:46 AM

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Welcome to the club

dlish · 07-29-2009, 06:56 AM

im 34 ....in the waist.

age is just a number. if you feel good about yourself then you are that age. i found a real grey hair in my head last week..just take it as it comes. i have no issues with getting older.

what do i do as a 30 something?

i dont take shit, i tell it how it is, im more chilled out than i was in my 20's. im also into my exercise a lot more than when i was in my 20's and looking after myself.

longevity is in the mind as much as it is in the body.

roachboy · 07-29-2009, 07:14 AM

yeah, i dont know about this stuff.
at some point white hairs started turning up in my beard. there they were. now i kinda like them.
i'm fine with where i am.

looking back, i think that i spent much of my younger life being a fucking idiot.
at some point i started wondering if, somehow, i'd become less stupid than i once was.
then i figured that's probably not the case, that i'm probably just stupid in different ways.

sometimes i think you figure things out right as you're about to die, maybe for the last 3 minutes.
like there's an moment of "what?...that was it?" then you expire.

getting older...there's no point in getting worked up about it.
it's not like you can do anything to change the facts of the matter.

wooÐs · 07-29-2009, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Welcome to the club

LOL

This is true. Children are no longer cute and innocent anymore. Unless they're well behaved and playing on their own turf, which doesn't include my f'ing driveway.

It's nice to hear / read from others who know what I'm on about. Sometimes, I feel like I'm surrounded by 20-somethings. Not just online but irl too. And it makes me choke lol. I was SOOO much different 10 years ago. Quite honestly, I had a drug problem, which helped with keeping slim and trim, confident and outgoing - happy. Now I'm just bitter and pessimistic. But I suppose that's a whole 'nuther thread!

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Oh, and I'm about 30% gray. Yay hair color.

Vigilante · 07-29-2009, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

It all started going downhill the day I turned 30... and it hasn't stopped.

So one day when I was 32, I was peeing on da' potty rite? I look down and see something strange --- go to brush it away. And it's not brushing away. It's a mother fucking gray pubic hair ffs. Granted I shave but it had been a week or so. I thought it was a dog hair at best. omg /die.

I LOL'd.

Your vanity is showing, and coming kicking and screaming into your third decade

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Originally Posted by dlish

im 34 ....in the waist.

Classic.

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Originally Posted by roachboy

looking back, i think that i spent much of my younger life being a fucking idiot.

Truer words were never spoken. I was such a fucktard in my 20's and younger. I'm still a fucktard, but not so hot-headed.

The_Jazz · 07-29-2009, 08:08 AM

I'm 38, and the only thing I can think to say in this thread is:

Suck it, you bunch of old coots!

If you like who you were 10 years ago so much, then change back into that person. Pick up the old habits. Hang out where you did before with the folks that were there. Or get new, younger friends if the old ones aren't "cool" anymore.

wooÐs · 07-29-2009, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Vigilante

I LOL'd.

Your vanity is showing, and coming kicking and screaming into your third decade

Well hell, if I were like, 50 or something, I would have been a little more understanding over my new found follicle. But 32???

And I plucked it and it hasn't come back. So that's good I guess. Until it multiplies!!!

kramus · 07-29-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

Well hell, if I were like, 50 or something, I would have been a little more understanding over my new found follicle. But 32???

And I plucked it and it hasn't come back. So that's good I guess. Until it multiplies!!!

It probably just migrated south to get away from the Tweezers of Doom

I noticed more physical stuff at the 40 wall than I did at the 30 wall. And 50, well that was arthritis in the knees and a scratch taking weeks to completely heal, and finding my bifocals still don't let me read small print. At least I still regularly get rode hard and put away drained, so that's a plus

And I have a plan I found in a book . . .

wooÐs · 07-29-2009, 08:28 AM

haaha!

Vigilante · 07-29-2009, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

Well hell, if I were like, 50 or something, I would have been a little more understanding over my new found follicle. But 32???

And I plucked it and it hasn't come back. So that's good I guess. Until it multiplies!!!

I'm 33 and a few are starting to turn white in my goatee. I guess it was going to happen sometime.

Pluck it and you anger it. It will spread!

I can just imagine a gray/silver bush. Hilarious! Would be even funnier if the curtains didn't match the drapes, and your head was brunette or whatever your natural color is and your bush was silver. Oh the horror, huh??

wooÐs · 07-29-2009, 11:39 AM

james t kirk · 07-29-2009, 12:42 PM

Try 45 on for size. (My birthday was last week)

Have your eyes gone yet? Don't worry, they will. They eye doctor told me when I was 25 that around 40 I would need bifocals. BIFOCALS, is he nuts? My grand father wore bifocals. It's bad enough being near sighted, but being near sighted and far sighted all at the same time is just wrong on so many levels .

It starts when you notice that sometimes your eyes just haze over when you're staring at the screen and you have to sort of close your eyes and open them again (like rebooting your eyes.)

Then you start to notice that you can't read a medicine bottle without straining, or holding it up to the light. Then you start holding things further away, but dammit, now it's too far away to see. (How come this fucking room is so fucking dark??)

sigh.....

Then one day, you're trying to read some drawings and it's hard. Your buddy says, "here, try my reading glasses" and you do and it's like magic, you can see again. The details are back.

sigh....

One day, you're in the drug store and you see the reading glasses rack and you think of your buddy's glasses and you think, "Im just going to try these one to see" and boy, it does make reading that medicine bottle allot easier (you are in Shoppers Drug Mart after all so there's lots of bottles around that you can test them out on. You figure out that +1.50 is pretty much perfect. )

But you don't buy them. You figure you don't need them yet (because you are in denial).

Then one night, you're lost and you pull out your Pearlies in your car and you can't read the fucking index (let alone the maps). I mean, you're holding it up to the map light, twisting your head, and pulling your head away and you still can't read a fucking thing.

Next time you are in Costco, you buy the 3 pack of cheap made in China Reading Glasses. One for you car, one for work, one for home.

sigh....

Giant Hamburger · 07-29-2009, 12:50 PM

In Giant Hamburgeria you would all be harvested for food.

uncle phil · 07-29-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by james t kirk

It starts when you notice that sometimes your eyes just haze over when you're staring at the screen and you have to sort of close your eyes and open them again (like rebooting your eyes.)

Then you start to notice that you can't read a medicine bottle without straining, or holding it up to the light. Then you start holding things further away, but dammit, now it's too far away to see. (How come this fucking room is so fucking dark??)

sigh.....

Then one day, you're trying to read some drawings and it's hard. Your buddy says, "here, try my reading glasses" and you do and it's like magic, you can see again. The details are back.

sigh....

One day, you're in the drug store and you see the reading glasses rack and you think of your buddy's glasses and you think, "Im just going to try these one to see" and boy, it does make reading that medicine bottle allot easier (you are in Shoppers Drug Mart after all so there's lots of bottles around that you can test them out on. You figure out that +1.50 is pretty much perfect. )

But you don't buy them. You figure you don't need them yet (because you are in denial).

Then one night, you're lost and you pull out your Pearlies in your car and you can't read the fucking index (let alone the maps). I mean, you're holding it up to the map light, twisting your head, and pulling your head away and you still can't read a fucking thing.

Next time you are in Costco, you buy the 3 pack of cheap made in China Reading Glasses. One for you car, one for work, one for home.

sigh....

so true...

grumpyolddude · 07-29-2009, 05:27 PM

It now takes all night to do once that which I could once do all night...

The eyes? I've had reading glasses since 14.

I'm a better bowler at 55 than I was at 25.

I outwork employees half my age every day.

I rock harder now than thirty years ago.

So, I have to occasionally trim a few hairs off my earlobes. Tough shit!

Fremen · 07-29-2009, 07:12 PM

I welcome the day I have built-in ear muffs!

Vigilante · 07-29-2009, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

HAHAHAHAHAAHAH

Woods, I suspect we will always get along. You crack me up LOL

wooÐs · 07-30-2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by james t kirk

eyes...

sigh....

I'm catching myself every so often, holding out whatever I'm reading so I can view it better. Then I quickly put it down or maybe test myself by bringing it back to 'normal' distance. 94% of the time, I get pretty f'ing frustrated. I mean, I swore I'd never be like my mother

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Originally Posted by Vigilante

HAHAHAHAHAAHAH

Woods, I suspect we will always get along. You crack me up LOL

yay new forum friend!

CinnamonGirl · 07-30-2009, 01:59 AM

I'm not quite 30 yet, but hey, if it makes you feel any better, I've had grey hair since I was 13.

wooÐs · 07-30-2009, 02:12 AM

It seems premature gray is more common these days maybe? I didn't find my first until 18 but I know a few who turned early like you.

Maybe our parent's stress is now hereditary lol.

CinnamonGirl · 07-30-2009, 02:18 AM

lol....maybe. It's definitely hereditary....my great-grandma was completely grey by the time she was 25. Of all her traits, THAT's what I get? Sheesh.

Halx · 07-30-2009, 03:49 AM

I see I have a lot to look forward to in 3+ years.

Flinx · 07-30-2009, 05:24 AM

Got to admit I'm not the same at 44 that I was at 24.
I smoke less, drink a LOT less but funny thing is I still have just as good a time now as then, go figure?
I don't sleep as much so I get more done in a day besides who needs more then 4 hours sleep a day?
Weight is pretty much the same, pity that it's not in the sames places now as then LOL.
Been wearing glasses since 17 or 18, just for a hoot I dug out a pair I wore then (yeah I'm a packrat), wow what a differance, couldn't see anything with them.
Grey hair? Hmm since like 28 or 30, hard to see them since I'm blond but yeah beard and head are getting over run with it.
As for going out, why bother unless there is something you really want to do? I find I can have just as good a time watching the tube, reading or visiting a good friend.
Becoming bitchier just means your getting wiser (thats my story and I'm sticking to it).

wooÐs · 07-30-2009, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Flinx

...Becoming bitchier just means your getting wiser (thats my story and I'm sticking to it).

Something along those lines belongs on a tshirt or bumper sticker.

Giant Hamburger · 07-30-2009, 09:00 AM

Old age and treachery
Always overcomes youth and skill
/Waylon Jennings

Shaindra · 07-30-2009, 03:56 PM

Yeah, my breasts were perkier then, but somehow I like my body better now. Go figure.

savmesom11 · 07-30-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

Well hell, if I were like, 50 or something, I would have been a little more understanding over my new found follicle. But 32???

And I plucked it and it hasn't come back. So that's good I guess. Until it multiplies!!!

I am exactly your age and without hesitation I can say, YES I am vain, and I don't apologize for that.....I realize getting older is part of life but when I spotted a gray pub (ps: I also shave) a year or so ago I didn't just brush it off with the rational that this happens to everyone. Forget that crap! It isn't everyone, at that moment it is you! So I understand, sympathize, empathize, whatever...I'm with you!

Yes, I wouldn't go back to my teens or twenties if I was given the chance. Yes, I am smarter, stable and more secure than I have ever been before but is that supposed to erase the fact that when I finally start figuring things out my body begins to fall apart?.....I think not!

JumpinJesus · 07-30-2009, 04:18 PM

wooÐs · 07-30-2009, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by savmesom11

I am exactly your age and without hesitation I can say, YES I am vain, and I don't apologize for that.....I realize getting older is part of life but when I spotted a gray pub (ps: I also shave) a year or so ago I didn't just brush it off with the rational that this happens to everyone. Forget that crap! It isn't everyone, at that moment it is you! So I understand, sympathize, empathize, whatever...I'm with you!

Yes, I wouldn't go back to my teens or twenties if I was given the chance. Yes, I am smarter, stable and more secure than I have ever been before but is that supposed to erase the fact that when I finally start figuring things out my body begins to fall apart?.....I think not!

*pours a fresh cup of coffee and sits next to savmesome*

I wouldn't really call myself vain per say, but come on - a gray / white pube??? That's like finding a new little hand growing out of your belly button ffs. It's alien almost!

Someone mentioned boobs. You know, women typically want bigguns. I've been 'blessed' or something with 40DDs for as long as I can remember. The cleavage is beautiful with the right bra. But without, well......... I just needs a pick-me-up in a bad way lol.

savmesom11 · 07-30-2009, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wooÐs

I wouldn't really call myself vain per say, but come on - a gray / white pube??? That's like finding a new little hand growing out of your belly button ffs. It's alien almost!

Amen sister!

bartgroks · 07-30-2009, 05:36 PM

The beard I never let grow in is half white. Not gray, lily white. Getting the Arthritis that runs in family.

Vigilante · 07-30-2009, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Giant Hamburger

Old age and treachery
Always overcomes youth and skill
/Waylon Jennings

Hahaha, so freakin true. In my case, especially treachery LOL.

What can I say, I learned it from my dad.

Tully Mars · 07-30-2009, 06:45 PM

I never really noticed a downturn at 30. Right at 40 I crushed the living shit out of my leg and foot. Was pretty much immobile for two years then another two to three years trying to get back to where I once belonged. Next thing I knew I was 45 and living on a beach in Mexico. I think I feel as good now as I did in my mid 30's, certainly taking better care of myself now. Eating better, don't smoke (though I quit everything but cigars in my 20's,) drink way less, my stress level is usually pretty near zero. I'm sure my reflexes are slower but I bench more now then I did at 35. I saw several doc's prior to moving down here. General Phys., Dental, Eyes etc... I do have some issues with hearing, ringing in the left ear. It's damaged, nothing can be done about it. The dentist told me I needed 6k worth of work but, great news!, my insurance would pay for half of it. I looked at the x-rays and I not only didn't see anything I couldn't feel anything wrong either. I passed. I've had one filling redone down here, costs me $60 total. The eye doc left me waiting in his exam room for about 20mins. He walked in and asked me to read the chart. So I did, starting with the bottom line. He asked me "what line are you reading?" "The bottom one." He raised one eye brow and flipped a switch and the letters/numbers all changed. "Ok, read it again, please." So I did. He then asked "Ok, why are you here?" He did some test where he blew air(?) in my eye and told me my eyes were better then fine.

Other then the reflexes and hearing I don't sleep well at all, left over BS from my foot/leg injury. Which generally messes with my memory and at times my ability to process information quickly. It's taken me forever to get even slightly able to understand Spanish. I have no doubt if I slept better I'd be way farther down that road, but I'm getting there.

All in all I'm happy where I'm at and who I am. I'd rather be 46 with the life experiences, complete with all the scars that entails, then go back and be the dumb ass kid I was at 20. Though I must admit at 20 I really pretty much knew all there was to know.

Leto · 07-31-2009, 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Iliftrocks

AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Welcome to the club

Should call it the Gran Torino Club.....

and this may be appropriate:

YouTube - "I'm an Adult Now" by The Pursuit of Happiness

uncle phil · 07-31-2009, 12:39 PM

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra...

07-28-2009, 09:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
wooÐs Sitting in a tree Location: Atlanta	A thread for those 30+ It all started going downhill the day I turned 30... and it hasn't stopped. I've put on weight. I'm getting a belly. WTF???????? I was always known for 'the flatest stomach I've ever seen.' What the hell is this shit???? I've become bitchier - less tolerant of crap. I have no interest in catty, female gossip bs. If you have something to say about someone, say it to her face. Only then will I be interested. In watching. I LOVE spending Saturday nights alone. Sunday too. Best TV nights of the week. Truth? I don't like going out anywhere. It's a waste of money and it's not as safe as it once was. All kinds of fucktards are on the roads these days - including cops. So one day when I was 32, I was peeing on da' potty rite? I look down and see something strange --- go to brush it away. And it's not brushing away. It's a mother fucking gray pubic hair ffs. Granted I shave but it had been a week or so. I thought it was a dog hair at best. omg /die. I CANNOT be the only one noticing changes while getting older. Make me feel better and post some worse ones. ..............please.

07-28-2009, 10:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Change happens. I put on a lot of weight when I was in my early 30s. Not huge just over weight. There are number of reasons why: kids, work, stress, etc. I am now 41 and have dropped the excess weight. I am also finding a better balance of work, family and a social life. Things I had trouble balancing in my 30s. Change happens. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

07-29-2009, 02:00 AM	#3 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	you're graduating... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-29-2009, 02:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	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. __________________ 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..

07-29-2009, 03:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	I didn't start to really notice these changes until 40 and, like you said, it seemed to happen on my 40th birthday - weight gain, impatience and, for me, my skin texture changed and I became more achy and less agile than I was before. Then again, I am also much more confident than I was when I was younger and feel I have a much better grip on who I am and what I want. I wouldn't trade that for anything. So, I accept all the changes and enjoy feeling more comfortable in my own (older) skin. __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

07-29-2009, 03:46 AM	#6 (permalink)
Iliftrocks Junkie Location: Near Raleigh, NC	AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!! Welcome to the club __________________ bill hicks - "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."

07-29-2009, 06:56 AM	#7 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	im 34 ....in the waist. age is just a number. if you feel good about yourself then you are that age. i found a real grey hair in my head last week..just take it as it comes. i have no issues with getting older. what do i do as a 30 something? i dont take shit, i tell it how it is, im more chilled out than i was in my 20's. im also into my exercise a lot more than when i was in my 20's and looking after myself. longevity is in the mind as much as it is in the body. __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

07-29-2009, 07:14 AM	#8 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	yeah, i dont know about this stuff. at some point white hairs started turning up in my beard. there they were. now i kinda like them. i'm fine with where i am. looking back, i think that i spent much of my younger life being a fucking idiot. at some point i started wondering if, somehow, i'd become less stupid than i once was. then i figured that's probably not the case, that i'm probably just stupid in different ways. sometimes i think you figure things out right as you're about to die, maybe for the last 3 minutes. like there's an moment of "what?...that was it?" then you expire. getting older...there's no point in getting worked up about it. it's not like you can do anything to change the facts of the matter. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

07-29-2009, 08:08 AM	#11 (permalink)
The_Jazz Asshole Administrator Location: Chicago	I'm 38, and the only thing I can think to say in this thread is: Suck it, you bunch of old coots! If you like who you were 10 years ago so much, then change back into that person. Pick up the old habits. Hang out where you did before with the folks that were there. Or get new, younger friends if the old ones aren't "cool" anymore. __________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin "There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

07-29-2009, 08:28 AM	#14 (permalink)
wooÐs Sitting in a tree Location: Atlanta	haaha!

07-29-2009, 11:39 AM	#16 (permalink)
wooÐs Sitting in a tree Location: Atlanta

07-29-2009, 12:42 PM	#17 (permalink)
james t kirk Junkie Location: Toronto	Try 45 on for size. (My birthday was last week) Have your eyes gone yet? Don't worry, they will. They eye doctor told me when I was 25 that around 40 I would need bifocals. BIFOCALS, is he nuts? My grand father wore bifocals. It's bad enough being near sighted, but being near sighted and far sighted all at the same time is just wrong on so many levels . It starts when you notice that sometimes your eyes just haze over when you're staring at the screen and you have to sort of close your eyes and open them again (like rebooting your eyes.) Then you start to notice that you can't read a medicine bottle without straining, or holding it up to the light. Then you start holding things further away, but dammit, now it's too far away to see. (How come this fucking room is so fucking dark??) sigh..... Then one day, you're trying to read some drawings and it's hard. Your buddy says, "here, try my reading glasses" and you do and it's like magic, you can see again. The details are back. sigh.... One day, you're in the drug store and you see the reading glasses rack and you think of your buddy's glasses and you think, "Im just going to try these one to see" and boy, it does make reading that medicine bottle allot easier (you are in Shoppers Drug Mart after all so there's lots of bottles around that you can test them out on. You figure out that +1.50 is pretty much perfect. ) But you don't buy them. You figure you don't need them yet (because you are in denial). Then one night, you're lost and you pull out your Pearlies in your car and you can't read the fucking index (let alone the maps). I mean, you're holding it up to the map light, twisting your head, and pulling your head away and you still can't read a fucking thing. Next time you are in Costco, you buy the 3 pack of cheap made in China Reading Glasses. One for you car, one for work, one for home. sigh.... Last edited by james t kirk; 07-29-2009 at 12:47 PM..

07-29-2009, 12:50 PM	#18 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	In Giant Hamburgeria you would all be harvested for food.

07-29-2009, 05:27 PM	#20 (permalink)
grumpyolddude Deliberately unfocused Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby	It now takes all night to do once that which I could once do all night... The eyes? I've had reading glasses since 14. I'm a better bowler at 55 than I was at 25. I outwork employees half my age every day. I rock harder now than thirty years ago. So, I have to occasionally trim a few hairs off my earlobes. Tough shit! __________________ "Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard

07-29-2009, 07:12 PM	#21 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	I welcome the day I have built-in ear muffs! __________________ Google

07-30-2009, 01:59 AM	#24 (permalink)
CinnamonGirl She's Actual Size Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell	I'm not quite 30 yet, but hey, if it makes you feel any better, I've had grey hair since I was 13. __________________ "...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world." "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

07-30-2009, 02:12 AM	#25 (permalink)
wooÐs Sitting in a tree Location: Atlanta	It seems premature gray is more common these days maybe? I didn't find my first until 18 but I know a few who turned early like you. Maybe our parent's stress is now hereditary lol.

07-30-2009, 02:18 AM	#26 (permalink)
CinnamonGirl She's Actual Size Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell	lol....maybe. It's definitely hereditary....my great-grandma was completely grey by the time she was 25. Of all her traits, THAT's what I get? Sheesh. __________________ "...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world." "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

07-30-2009, 03:49 AM	#27 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I see I have a lot to look forward to in 3+ years. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

07-30-2009, 05:24 AM	#28 (permalink)
Flinx Tilted Location: Canada	Got to admit I'm not the same at 44 that I was at 24. I smoke less, drink a LOT less but funny thing is I still have just as good a time now as then, go figure? I don't sleep as much so I get more done in a day besides who needs more then 4 hours sleep a day? Weight is pretty much the same, pity that it's not in the sames places now as then LOL. Been wearing glasses since 17 or 18, just for a hoot I dug out a pair I wore then (yeah I'm a packrat), wow what a differance, couldn't see anything with them. Grey hair? Hmm since like 28 or 30, hard to see them since I'm blond but yeah beard and head are getting over run with it. As for going out, why bother unless there is something you really want to do? I find I can have just as good a time watching the tube, reading or visiting a good friend. Becoming bitchier just means your getting wiser (thats my story and I'm sticking to it).

07-30-2009, 09:00 AM	#30 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	Old age and treachery Always overcomes youth and skill /Waylon Jennings

07-30-2009, 03:56 PM	#31 (permalink)
Shaindra Psycho Location: Massachusetts	Yeah, my breasts were perkier then, but somehow I like my body better now. Go figure. __________________ "Never regret something that once made you smile."

07-30-2009, 04:18 PM	#33 (permalink)
JumpinJesus Junkie Location: Chicago	__________________ "I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses

07-30-2009, 05:36 PM	#36 (permalink)
bartgroks Crazy Location: Dallas, Tx.	The beard I never let grow in is half white. Not gray, lily white. Getting the Arthritis that runs in family. __________________ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google

07-30-2009, 06:45 PM	#38 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	I never really noticed a downturn at 30. Right at 40 I crushed the living shit out of my leg and foot. Was pretty much immobile for two years then another two to three years trying to get back to where I once belonged. Next thing I knew I was 45 and living on a beach in Mexico. I think I feel as good now as I did in my mid 30's, certainly taking better care of myself now. Eating better, don't smoke (though I quit everything but cigars in my 20's,) drink way less, my stress level is usually pretty near zero. I'm sure my reflexes are slower but I bench more now then I did at 35. I saw several doc's prior to moving down here. General Phys., Dental, Eyes etc... I do have some issues with hearing, ringing in the left ear. It's damaged, nothing can be done about it. The dentist told me I needed 6k worth of work but, great news!, my insurance would pay for half of it. I looked at the x-rays and I not only didn't see anything I couldn't feel anything wrong either. I passed. I've had one filling redone down here, costs me $60 total. The eye doc left me waiting in his exam room for about 20mins. He walked in and asked me to read the chart. So I did, starting with the bottom line. He asked me "what line are you reading?" "The bottom one." He raised one eye brow and flipped a switch and the letters/numbers all changed. "Ok, read it again, please." So I did. He then asked "Ok, why are you here?" He did some test where he blew air(?) in my eye and told me my eyes were better then fine. Other then the reflexes and hearing I don't sleep well at all, left over BS from my foot/leg injury. Which generally messes with my memory and at times my ability to process information quickly. It's taken me forever to get even slightly able to understand Spanish. I have no doubt if I slept better I'd be way farther down that road, but I'm getting there. All in all I'm happy where I'm at and who I am. I'd rather be 46 with the life experiences, complete with all the scars that entails, then go back and be the dumb ass kid I was at 20. Though I must admit at 20 I really pretty much knew all there was to know. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

07-31-2009, 12:39 PM	#40 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.