Youth really is wasted on the young.

[mikey3000]

It sucks growing old. I have aches and pains all over, I'm tired, cranky and bored. And, I'm turning 50 in two months . Oh, I think I'm just going to hide somewhere.

 

[peeonme]

I might miss the days of my youth. However, life for me now is better than ever, I might have to dredge up words that elude me and at time I have no clue as to what the hell I was after when I get to the room I headed in to. I do have some aches and pains also. You shouldn't feel that bad at 50, I will hit 67 in a few months and have decided to start a business. Life is what you make it.

 

[mikey3000]

But I'm turning 50!! Argh!! No really, I am ok, but am having trouble with my hands. I have the start of Dupuytren's Contractures and have had four surgeries so far. They hurt when the damp weather comes. And my torn rotator cuff from my dumb cat.

 

[offthewall14420]

It's Friday. You aint got no job. You aint got shit to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/14/the-mature-stoner-why-are-so-many-seniors-smoking-weed

 

[Cormac135]

Have you considered moving ?

 

[offthewall14420]

... and wisdom is wasted on the elderly.

 

[dpnice]

So I have a cancer which is controlled every six months, my feet are so swollen that I can’t wear my shoes, it takes me an hour every morning to bend my fingers and I am worried that I may have a cancer of the colon.

Apart from the fact that I no longer have sex my life is much happier than when I was a teenager.

 

[Rocinante01]

It sucks growing old. I have aches and pains all over, I'm tired, cranky and bored. And, I'm turning 50 in two months . Oh, I think I'm just going to hide somewhere.

I agree with your title but I don’t think all the negatives you list are required. I quit drinking at 45, used exercise and diet to pull me through the hard part. Now at 51 I’m stronger more fit and fel the best I have in 30 years. My body fat, not a measure I manage just an indicator, stays around 10-12%. I will say the fear of growing old in the gay world scares me some what, but the alternative isn’t acceptable. Sex is better now than it’s ever been, less hang ups and better erections)). I think the newer generation, if they take advantage of our new freedoms, will have more children; and I think that would make getting very old less scary.

 

[Telstra]

I might miss the days of my youth. However, life for me now is better than ever, I might have to dredge up words that elude me and at time I have no clue as to what the hell I was after when I get to the room I headed in to. I do have some aches and pains also. You shouldn't feel that bad at 50, I will hit 67 in a few months and have decided to start a business. Life is what you make it.

People shouldn't miss anything they don't have.
You cannot have your youth back so there is no point missing it

 

[gsdx]

People shouldn't miss anything they don't have.
You cannot have your youth back so there is no point missing it

Missing a bus or a train is not like missing something you used to have. There is LOTS of point in missing it. If you don't miss it, it really had no meaning to you in the first place.

 

[NotHardUp1]

When they delete your account, every one of your posts will vanish.

 

[luckynumbah7]

Missing a bus or a train is not like missing something you used to have. There is LOTS of point in missing it. If you don't miss it, it really had no meaning to you in the first place.

Oh, I dunno. I don't miss my youth. I don't associate my youth with a lack of aches & paints tho, either. I could say I missed the constant discovery process, but that's still going on so's it's not like it went anywhere.

Now, the amount of energy many of them seem to have, that I miss.