Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[LizzieMaine]

You're only old the day you decide to be..

Sometimes your herniated discs decide that for you.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Around 28, I was realizing, that I don't have the same long energy-periods, like on beeing 23/24. On 23/24, I was able to move through the nature, hours over hours, without food. Now, that's not more possible.

But, it doesn't disturb me. It's just a finding.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I guess the old folks home is nearer for some than for others..

 

[Trenchfriend]

 

[philosophygirl78]

You're only old the day you decide to be..

Mid life crisis sometimes tried to decide for you..

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Well if y'all gonna let other things decide fer ya, I cain't help ya none....

Mid-life crisis ? isn't that a middle class urban concept, where egocentric 30 somethings finally realize that they're adults..

 

[philosophygirl78]

Well if y'all gonna let other things decide fer ya, I cain't help ya none....

Mid-life crisis ? isn't that a middle class urban concept, where egocentric 30 somethings finally realize that they're adults..

i think its always occured, and occurs across the board of classes. its just perhaps been named from a certain class standpoint.

everyone goes through issues with age...

 

[Trenchfriend]

I think, midlife-crisis is more a thing on people, which are not having hobbys and not more having their fizzing vital energy-source from earlier days inside. People, not knowing, what to do with their private times.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I never had a mid-life crisis -- you actually have to *have* expectations before you can be frustrated at not achieving them. Never having had any such expectations means I don't worry about it.

I simply can't deny the toll that age is taking on my body -- the damaged back, the aching joints, the deteriorating eyesight, the memory lapses. There are an increasing number of mornings where, if you're really "as old as you feel," then I'm a hundred and two.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Well they do say that when you're over 50 & you get out of bed in the mornings without any aches or pains, it means you're dead..

I'm just pleased that I crossed the path of a vampire when I was 30.

 

[JimWagner]

Has anyone ever actually experienced a "midlife crisis" or even seen anyone have one outside of TV and movies? And buying a red sports car when you reach that point in your life when you can afford one doesn't count. I have seen a few people try to justify something on having a midlife crisis, but that's all it was.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I worked for a guy who ticked every item off the stereotype list, only his sports car was black instead of red. But he wore aqua sport coats and loafers with no socks, went to a tanning salon, got his teeth bleached, and got caught in flagrante delicto with a blonde twentysomething by his wife. Check and double check.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Has anyone ever actually experienced a "midlife crisis" or even seen anyone have one outside of TV and movies?

Not really.

 

[Trenchfriend]

@LizzieMaine

You're a beauty and beauty doesn't know about age!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts.

 

[GHT]

Has anyone ever actually experienced a "midlife crisis" or even seen anyone have one outside of TV and movies?

Oh yes. One of our biggest supermarket stores in the UK is a company called Tesco. Before their demise, in The States, they were better known as Fresh & Go.
One of their store managers, a neighbour of mine, probably on a six figure salary package, with a further six figure potential bonus, a company car, private medical care, a company share purchase option, a pension that saw the employer put in four times that of the employee, six weeks annual leave, and, and, and. At the age of forty, he saw his empire crash around him when he was caught, in the store's warehouse section, up to the hilt in a seventeen year old shelf stacker.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts.

This is very true as my sister once said: "Beauty is only skin deep, whilst ugly goes right to the bone."

 

[Lean'n'mean]

when he was caught, in the store's warehouse section, up to the hilt in a seventeen year old shelf stacker.

Enter not into temptation,

 

[Fading Fast]

Oh yes. One of our biggest supermarket stores in the UK is a company called Tesco. Before their demise, in The States, they were better known as Fresh & Go.
One of their store managers, a neighbour of mine, probably on a six figure salary package, with a further six figure potential bonus, a company car, private medical care, a company share purchase option, a pension that saw the employer put in four times that of the employee, six weeks annual leave, and, and, and. At the age of forty, he saw his empire crash around him when he was caught, in the store's warehouse section, up to the hilt in a seventeen year old shelf stacker....

I have no idea if this is the case in this example, but I've seen several "rock stars" in finance blow themselves up with sex or drugs (and many times both) and sometimes the same drive, the same energy, the same all-out that the individual brings to achieving success - the same desire to advance, to get what they want - is the same force that compels them to throw it all away on sex or drugs. I am not making excuses for these individuals, let me emphasize that, just pointing out that the same energy and drive that leads to success can also be the same energy and drive that leads to the person's downfall. The most successful control themselves and bring their energy and drive to positive results only, but some successful people can't and, then, boom, it all ends. That's it, just an observation that there is a reason many successful people seem to blow themselves up for stupid things.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

" I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best -

 

[Trenchfriend]

I but some successful people can't and, then, boom, it all ends. That's it, just an observation that there is a reason many successful people seem to blow themselves up for stupid things.

They are not "deep-ones", I think.