Current Events > how do you guys cope with growing old?

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less than 2 months until I turn 22 and my youth years are basically over
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I feel happy that I'm one year closer to death.

That's really the only silver lining to aging.
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22?? Your youth years are just beginning...
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2nd post
Also booze
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I grow bitter and apathetic and let my seething hatred for humanity grow.
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ShotOJameson posted...

22?? Your youth years are just beginning...

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I'm turning 36 in October. I try not to think about it. I bet it will bother me when i'm 39 going on 40 a lot more. I still feel youthful and whatnot.
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Drinking.

Various but consistently over indulgent levels of drinking.
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And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
the way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
signifying nothing.
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Alcohol

Sometimes its weird. I think about when I was a kid, and I thought I would never be an adult. Now Im an adult and only growing older.

we live with it, end up being wiser as we age, doesn't need smoking or alcohol to get by.
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I'm 35.
I don't feel any different than I did at 20. I look different. I have an issue with my keens/chins sometimes. I do get more easily worn out if I'm suddenly doing a lot of physical activities. For instance I just went to the Grand Canyon two weeks ago. Going from basically no physical activity to that is like polar opposites. But of course hiking around with a 20 pound pack at 7000 feet is probably going to do anyone in.
I don't have the desire to do shit like stay out in town and go see a movie at full price at 10pm anymore. I can do it. But I would rather just go in the afternoon, get a drink at the Coffee Bean or Barnes and then come home.

I don't feel like I'm coping with anything though. As if age is like some monster creeping up behind me. Sure I'm older but whatever.
The one and only thing that does bother me a lot if I think about it too much is seeing my mother and aunts getting older too. Which yeah, duh. But I remember my mom vividly when she was 25. My aunts in their 40s. But 55, 70 and 74 now. It's bothersome knowing there's not much time left with them. With my aunts at least. My mom, I'm praying she's still got thirty years at least if family history is anything to go on. She certainly isn't in any ill health or has slowed down at all.
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ShotOJameson posted...

22?? Your youth years are just beginning...

This. I'm 26 and I'm still technically 'young'. It's the failing health that gets me, though. Age is not really that important.

It's whatever, I'm gonna die someday, could be tomorrow or 100 years, I'm just screwing around until then.
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