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How do you deal with getting older?

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shfan:
My 20s were lost completely to a black hole of depression, from which I only started emerging in my early 30s, a dented shell of a human being with little life experience. I've just turned 44, have a wife and child, but still have a long way to go in terms of forming, not helped by poor life choices and multiple health problems.

Aging was always terrifying, particularly when in my mid-30s I'd realized how much I'd actually lost, I've come to terms with that now but need to re-focus on my health (quickly) and improve my lifestyle while continuing to adult better and faster.

In relation to aging, which in effect is just time, I'd suggest the following:

1) Live full, long days. Don't run yourself into the floor but try and finish the day in a better position than you started it, get something done.
2) Try new things/media to stay at least slightly in the loop, but accept that what you like is largely 'set' now. In gaming terms this means not trying to force yourself to play RTS games when you just want to shoot things.
3) Also in gaming/entertainment, recognize what you used to like as opposed to what you actually enjoy when left to your own devices.
4) Do what you always told your parents etc., which they didn't want to, look after yourself!
5) If something's not happening, whether it's playing a particular game, decorating a room in a particular way, going to this or that destination etc. recognize it sooner and stop investing time and money in stuff that's not going to bear fruit.

kryst4line:
I've just turned 32 and I'm feeling it as well, so this thread has hit close to home. Keep going, comrades.

undertakerprime:
I’m pushing 50, and yeah, I’m having to deal with all the crap that comes with getting older. Dad passed last year, mom is suffering from senility, other family members passing, I have more aches and pains.

One way I deal with it is realizing how fortunate I am to have what I have. My wife and mother-in-law have been absolute rocks through everything. I have a good, stable job. I have 2 INCREDIBLY smart 12-year-old twin boys who like the same geeky stuff I do.

Plus I have my hobbies, like playing games and toy collecting, which might seem strange for a middle-aged man, but they help keep me sharp. Just finished Elden Ring a few weeks back, and that game is no pushover. Constantly learning more about games and consoles I didn’t really experience before, like the Neo Geo and TG16. I definitely don’t feel a mid-life crisis coming any time soon, I have enough going on :)

doafan:
Am scratching as well the 50´s but I don´t fell like an old man, because of my job I have to be always active and now even more cause this past week they fired my partner as well because of my parents, they always told me to work faster and that I need to learn how to do many things at the same time, that´s why am always active, I can give three tech supports at a time in two different languages, age for me is just a number as well if you look at my profile you will find that I don´t age, I Level Up  8)

turf:
Let’s be real. Getting old sucks. It’s harder to be fit. You can’t pee as far. Sometimes you wake up and just feel like you’ve been in a car crash because you slept wrong.

Just because your body gets older doesn’t mean you have to be old. Stay active. Dress like a relevant person. (Don’t be a try-hard old guy, but buy you some new clothes). Still play games. Still watch movies. Don’t get caught up in what’s comfortable. Keep trying. Have fun.

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