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Tomorrow I am officially old
Raijin Quickfoot
I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
I have 3 and a half hours until midnight here when I will turn 40.
I know I’m not the oldest on here but I’m feeling really old.
I joined these forums when I was 22!! Still pink of cheek! Full of piss and vinegar! Now I’m just full of shit.
Between 30-35 I found out about my type 2 diabetes, broke my arm, had 2 surgeries, and my body slowly starting hurting more and more. The amount of sound that comes from my joints when I stand up is absurd.
How do you feel about getting old? Are you planning on aging gracefully? Do you want to cling desperately to your youth?
I plan on clingy desperately to my youth and living vicariously through my kids!
I’ve been struggling a bit with the concept of 40. I know that it isn’t really THAT old but it’s fucking 40! I’ll never be in my 30’s again and that depresses me.
But it is what it is. We are time’s unwilling servant. Have to make the most of it while we’re here.
If anyone else has a birthday tomorrow... happy birthday!!!
I know I’m not the oldest on here but I’m feeling really old.
I joined these forums when I was 22!! Still pink of cheek! Full of piss and vinegar! Now I’m just full of shit.
Between 30-35 I found out about my type 2 diabetes, broke my arm, had 2 surgeries, and my body slowly starting hurting more and more. The amount of sound that comes from my joints when I stand up is absurd.
How do you feel about getting old? Are you planning on aging gracefully? Do you want to cling desperately to your youth?
I plan on clingy desperately to my youth and living vicariously through my kids!
I’ve been struggling a bit with the concept of 40. I know that it isn’t really THAT old but it’s fucking 40! I’ll never be in my 30’s again and that depresses me.
But it is what it is. We are time’s unwilling servant. Have to make the most of it while we’re here.
If anyone else has a birthday tomorrow... happy birthday!!!
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Happy birthday, Raijin.
Steam ID - VeldrinD
Any volunteers?
Steam ID - VeldrinD
I'll be 40 in days and now it's like "sorry, I slept on the wrong pillow so now I can't look to my left for the rest of the week."
Hoowwwwwwoooooowww? That's impressive, actually.
Definitely an old person joke
I have the opposite problem. At 30 I was still in college and getting my life together so I just didn't feel old. Now I'm married, got a degree, had a stable job for a few years, and it's like. Fuck, I still want kids I should get on that oh holy fuck I'm so old to be having kids.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Steam ID - VeldrinD
Look at your hands, dawg. You already ain't.
I'm currently 38.
I am still a virgin and have never had a girlfriend.
To say the societal and familial pressure to have a family is immense is... an understatement. *sigh*
I'm gonna die alone.
Better to die alone than surrounded by friends like Caesar.
40+ has been pretty rad, though I warn you I immediately ran out of fucks on my 40th birthday and haven't found any since
Come out to Mayo I'll do your anesthesia.
Nobody decides how or when to have a family but you.
If I had panicked and gotten married because I was getting old, I would never have met my fiancée, who is basically a perfect match for me.
Long term partnership is too important to rush.
shit, everybody dies alone (this is not necessarily true, I haven't died yet so not 100%)
but you don't need a nuclear family to be happy, and it's a fucked up thing that we put that pressure on our offspring
just be good. if you're kind and chill, your existence is a net gain for humanity, and that's just as good. it is. it sounds dumb, but it is.
I know this feeling a bit, My oldest was born when I was 39! Second one was three months ago. The math certainly fucks with my head sometimes. I’ll be over 60 by the time the youngest is 18.
I'm already all "oh god I'm just a slowly rotting corpse, withering away like an apple into my dotage"
So I always felt like this too, though without the family pressure part as my left sibling had kids young, I basically got the courage to try internet dating from lurking the thread on it in D&D 10 years ago. It was one of the hardest emotional things I ever did.
But it’s also totally cool to not conform to those societal pressures unless you really want to!
Now I stumbled ass backwards into it, but I live in a purely platonic, but very loving, relationship with my best friend and their spouse and I've gotta say that I am happier than I thought possible.
Living with a Family of Choice is such a wonderful gift that I actually feel very little of the pressure and frustration of being single. So much so that over the last few years I have successfully sidestepped several potential romantic entanglements that would have each been an absolute trainwreck for me, but ones I would have pursued in the past.
It's a lot easier to be patient with myself when I have loving support all around me
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Wouldn't that just make you live longer?
Who would want that?
i am so tired of crushing my own balls when i sit down
That's not even half a century.
Still reek of the womb.
I would. I want to live past the heat death of the universe, floating alone in the eyeless dark. Non-existence is the only thing I fear, and that's what awaits us when we die, so I want to live for eternity.
It's over 10 years old now. Oh sweet summer child.
I'm actually not too bad off in terms of daily aches and pains. I did get some localized back pain after running this summer that lasted for like 3 weeks instead of a few days, so that was a new and exciting sign of things to come.
My biggest concern is if/when the pandemic dies off enough that I can start up adult rec soccer again I'm gonna go too hard right away and mess something up. Ruptured achilles is most common in men over 40 playing rec sports and the timing will probably work out just so.
Fuck it though, still gonna do it until I can't. I have the rest of my life to be actually old.
I don't have high enough Arete for that yet.