Current Events > The 55-65 years are handled so much differently between people.

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I have to talk to a lot of people on the phone delivering health information for one of my jobs. The biggest behavioral attitude difference between people of the same age cohort is in the 55 to 65 range. There are so many people who I wouldn't figure for any different someone in their 30s or 40s, but so many others who act like they're 90 or older.

It's weird how many people just seem to give up on life after 50. Even if you're not hot anymore, there's still plenty of being alive to do.

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i'm gonna be that cool old guy who spoils his grandchildren/nieces/nephews and pisses off the parents

i'm going to start ironically wearing an eyepatch and smoking a pipe

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treewojima posted...

i'm gonna be that cool old guy who spoils his grandchildren/nieces/nephews and pisses off the parents

The Trent posted...

i'm going to start ironically wearing an eyepatch and smoking a pipe

Both of these are fine. I like those oldsters with character and heart.

It's the people who I can hear watching Matlock in the background even though they're only 58. Breathing heavily and shrugging off my advice with "Well, I'm old, not like I have much else going on 'til I die." Like, bruh, why are you resigning yourself to old age? Matlock's original run was when you were in your twenties! It barely counts as nostalgia.

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no i'm going to have an eyepatch, a wu-tang record playing and new age not yet invented drugs on the coffee table

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Yeah I used to work admissions at the hospital and there are people out there who look like theyre 40 with a six pack and they're 60. I don't think most people even know that's possible

And it's not good genes. It's exercise and diet

The Trent posted...

a wu-tang record playing

literally my geriatric ass last night

A lot of people are incredibly disinterested in improving their health and make up nonsensical excuses for it

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Njolk posted...

Yeah I used to work admissions at the hospital and there are people out there who look like theyre 40 with a six pack and they're 60. I don't think most people even know that's possible

And it's not good genes. It's exercise and diet

This. Genes can be a part of it but its about staying active. My dads 65 and strong as shit and he can hike 12 hours non stop over pretty gnarly terrain. And its because he's always been doing shit like that.

My grandmas were a perfect example. One just wanted to sit and read and eventually became so weak she needed a wheel chair and the other did her own grocery shopping and lived independently into her 90s because she was always out walking and doing stuff.

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Njolk posted...

I don't think most people even know that's possible
And it's not good genes. It's exercise and diet

CanuckCowboy posted...

This. Genes can be a part of it but its about staying active. My dads 65 and strong as shit and he can hike 12 hours non stop over pretty gnarly terrain. And its because he's always been doing shit like that.

Absolutely. I need to keep up with all my stuff and be upright. My parents are total opposites with this. My dad is lean and works all day on physical projects. He's 74, smoked for over fifty years, has arthritis in his spine that he didn't even know about until it got so bad it crushed a nerve.

My mom is 72, obese, using diabetes and arthritis as an excuse since before I was born. At this point, she's practically bedbound. She just refuses to walk more than a couple hundred steps a day and wants everything done for her. I've seen pictures from the past when she was about average. This is entirely self-inflicted.

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Imagine not giving up before your 30s

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When I'm in my 50s, I will exercise regularly, engage in rec sports with 30-somethings and make them look bad while still being hot.

oh wait...

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