Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[Fading Fast]

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

Along the lines of "Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse," which is fine if the person does die young - but many times they don't and the wreckage that is their life from the living fast can be ugly. Even worse, they don't do all this in a vacuum and many people - friends, spouses, children - become collateral damage.

But if you do it all to yourself in a vacuum and that's your thing - you own your life, so no judgement from me.

 

[JimWagner]

Maybe I don't know what people think midlife crisis means then. Those examples just sound like idiots thinking with the wrong head, and that happens at all ages and all income levels.

 

[GHT]

Maybe I don't know what people think midlife crisis means then. Those examples just sound like idiots thinking with the wrong head, and that happens at all ages and all income levels.

Sorry Jim, forgive me for being slow, are you suggesting that mid life crisis only happens, well, mid life. Or is it that we are all capable of such crises at any time of our lives? I ask because this implies the former.

Those examples just sound like idiots thinking with the wrong head, and that happens at all ages and all income levels.

The example that I posted was certainly, as you observed, the action of an idiot. Someone who had not gained sufficient experience of life, not someone with a beautiful wife and two gorgeous little ones, as was the case of this particular Lothario.

 

[tonyb]

What stuns me is the number of people who give the scalawags no good reason to change. You know, the wives who won't dump the chumps, for instance.

 

[2jakes]

Birthday & party time for me was
something I enjoyed as a kid.
Today I might get a card or two.
And that is fine too.
Putting a number to an age is
just that.
Just a number.
I enjoy things all the time
no matter what the number is,
As long as my body allows it
I'm having a swell time....

There are some who would tell me
to act my age!

I don't have a clue!

I just enjoy life!

 

[HudsonHawk]

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

I always said I'd quit playing baseball when my teammates dragged me off the field and told me I couldn't play anymore. That may be getting closer than I realize.

 

[scottyrocks]

Age is continuing to do its thing.

Three years ago I underwent surgery to have three stents put into two of the four arteries leading to my heart.

I remember the symptoms all to well. I have been feeling them again for a couple of weeks, and am scheduled to go in for a treadmill evaluation and nuclear stress test (again).

The only logical thing I can think of is that the two previously not-clogged-enough-for-surgery arteries took an extra three years to get to this point. If the problem is one of the two previously stented arteries, I'm not going to be looking forward to going through this every few years.

Merry Christmas.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

If it weren't for midlife crises Harley-Davidson would just be a name from the past.

 

[GHT]

If it weren't for midlife crises Harley-Davidson would just be a name from the past.

Can't argue with that.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Many health problems that some folk like to blame on age are just the results of lifestyle choices made in their younger years, if one abuses or neglects one's body, the odds are increased for payback time somewhere along the line..
Genetic predispositions aside, I don't believe serious illnesses & decrepitude are inevitable as one advances in age.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And don't forget Amalgam, which toxicated so many people over decades, all over the world, because of a bad, leak filling!

Get this outdated special-waste (!) out of your mouth!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Can't argue with that.

+1

Harley will probably ever be there. It's just a timeless "romanticism", same like our clothing-thing, here, I think.

You have to translate:

"The people with berets" (1961!!)
http://www.zeit.de/1961/12/leute-mit-den-baskenmuetzen

I comprehended it, this year. That's it.

"It's a romanticism".

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Get this outdated special-waste (!) out of your mouth!

Jawohl ! ....Mercury poisoning might explain why I am as mad as a hatter.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Amalgam is still an available option, in Germany. Not forbidden by law, but really no intelligent doctor would recommend this prehistoric 1820's-quicksilver-stuff and no intelligent patient would choose it. In the 90's, the people here finally comprehended, what they are dealing with. Many people have rescued their health, by letting remove this bad stuff!
Ok, Amalgam ist still the most longlasting, off course. Composite is not. But it's your health!

 

[Trenchfriend]

It's upcoming heavily, in Germany. The authentic thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir

But, please, not on children. Your selfmade Kefir got 2,0 % alcohol.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Many health problems that some folk like to blame on age are just the results of lifestyle choices made in their younger years, if one abuses or neglects one's body, the odds are increased for payback time somewhere along the line..
Genetic predispositions aside, I don't believe serious illnesses & decrepitude are inevitable as one advances in age.

Never drank, never smoked, never used any recreational drugs, was quite physically active until the back injuries, used to have a photographic memory but you just can't get the film for it anymore.

Shake hands with genetic predispositions here. With only one exception nobody in my family as far back as I've been able to trace has ever lived past eighty.

 

[Fading Fast]

Never drank, never smoked, never used any recreational drugs, was quite physically active until the back injuries, used to have a photographic memory but you just can't get the film for it anymore.

Shake hands with genetic predispositions here. With only one exception nobody in my family as far back as I've been able to trace has ever lived past eighty.

It's the difference between statistics and individual cases. Take a large enough pool of people who don't drink, smoke or use drugs and who get regular activity and the result will be a large number of healthy people. Take a large enough pool of people who smoke, drink, use drugs and don't exercise and there will be many, many more health problems in total than in the first pool. But there are alway outliers - some in the first pool will have all sorts of health issues and some in the second pool will be healthy despite themselves.

That's why I'm a moderation guy. I don't smoke cause I hate it, I drink in moderation, work out regularly and eat pretty healthy, but am not a fanatic about any of it. I figure, I'm probably improving my odds, but my gene pool ain't great and there's alway the bus that can run over you. At a population level, we would have a much healthier population if no one smoke, drank, used drugs and everyone got regular exercise, but we would still have sick people, etc.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Amalgam is still an available option, in Germany. Not forbidden by law, but really no intelligent doctor would recommend this prehistoric 1820's-quicksilver-stuff and no intelligent patient would choose it. In the 90's, the people here finally comprehended, what they are dealing with. Many people have rescued their health, by letting remove this bad stuff!
Ok, Amalgam ist still the most longlasting, off course. Composite is not. But it's your health!

There is no definitive research that concludes the amount of mercury in amalgam fillings is harmful to most people. In fact, just the opposite. Studies have shown over and over again that there is no elevated health risk from amalgam fillings, and in fact, trying to remove them is likely more harmful than keeping them. New data may change that in the future, but to suggest that currently no intelligent doctor or patient would or should choose amalgam is simply fear mongering at the highest level.

 

[scottyrocks]

It's the difference between statistics and individual cases. Take a large enough pool of people who don't drink, smoke or use drugs and who get regular activity and the result will be a large number of healthy people. Take a large enough pool of people who smoke, drink, use drugs and don't exercise and there will be many, many more health problems in total than in the first pool. But there are alway outliers - some in the first pool will have all sorts of health issues and some in the second pool will be healthy despite themselves.

That's why I'm a moderation guy. I don't smoke cause I hate it, I drink in moderation, work out regularly and eat pretty healthy, but am not a fanatic about any of it. I figure, I'm probably improving my odds, but my gene pool ain't great and there's alway the bus that can run over you. At a population level, we would have a much healthier population if no one smoke, drank, used drugs and everyone got regular exercise, but we would still have sick people, etc.

I agree with moderation. I don't go crazy with healthy stuff, although I do limit stuff that is known or said to be not healthy.

The way I look at it is, do I really want to live longer eating cardboard, or a little shorter with some tasty stuff once in a while?

 

[HudsonHawk]

The way I look at it is, do I really want to live longer eating cardboard, or a little shorter with some tasty stuff once in a while?

"Existing longer" is not the same as "living well".