Aging Kiwis - Deterioration, hard to spell... no effort to do. Tell your story, ask advice and respect your elders god damnit.

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Here's big secret fellow old folks. Decrease stress. Learn to stop worrying about shit you cannot control and focus on what you can. Right now, at 41, I still have women thinking that I'm in my late 20s or early 30s cause I don't hold on to shit that causes me axiety to the best of my ability. Physically, I still feel 30, minimal health issues, good physique, dick still working and and its all because I refuse stress about everything. This modern world with 24 hour news and social media is creating a sickness that has left people anxietal, over-medicated, lethargic, lazy, fat and aging at a rapid pace. What most people need is to cut the chord, focus on themselves and let the world burn if it's going to.
 
UCantCCPMe said:
Here's big secret fellow old folks. Decrease stress. Learn to stop worrying about shit you cannot control and focus on what you can. Right now, at 41, I still have women thinking that I'm in my late 20s or early 30s cause I don't hold on to shit that causes me axiety to the best of my ability. Physically, I still feel 30, minimal health issues, good physique, dick still working and and its all because I refuse stress about everything. This modern world with 24 hour news and social media is creating a sickness that has left people anxietal, over-medicated, lethargic, lazy, fat and aging at a rapid pace. What most people need is to cut the chord, focus on themselves and let the world burn if it's going to.
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I tend to be an easygoing fella and up through my early 40s I still got carded for caffeine pills and other 18+ items if I was clean shaven or freshly trimmed back so it wasn't obviously greying
 
Pee Cola said:
My eyesight - which was always a bit tenuous for distance - completely turned to shit in my late 40s. Now I need two pairs of glasses: one for driving/distance, the other for reading. I should probably get bifocals, but wearing those will make me feel even older than I already do.
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Get progressive lenses! No one can tell them apart from single vision, and they aren't like the kind they made a decade or more ago that were literally nauseating to wear. I was worried about that issue when I got them, and now I wouldn't go back.
 
Catastrophes said:
Get progressive lenses! No one can tell them apart from single vision, and they aren't like the kind they made a decade or more ago that were literally nauseating to wear. I was worried about that issue when I got them, and now I wouldn't go back.
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My progressives are horrible! Distance vision sucks, makes me dizzy, but the reader portion is nice. I find myself wearing my old prescription glasses, or my contacts with readers.
 
I've been ride or die contact lenses since I was like, ten. I haven't even had a pair of glasses in like, fifteen years or so. I just hold my phone in video mode up close to my face if I really need to see around the home before I've put them in for the day
 
UCantCCPMe said:
Here's big secret fellow old folks. Decrease stress. Learn to stop worrying about shit you cannot control and focus on what you can. Right now, at 41, I still have women thinking that I'm in my late 20s or early 30s cause I don't hold on to shit that causes me axiety to the best of my ability. Physically, I still feel 30, minimal health issues, good physique, dick still working and and its all because I refuse stress about everything. This modern world with 24 hour news and social media is creating a sickness that has left people anxietal, over-medicated, lethargic, lazy, fat and aging at a rapid pace. What most people need is to cut the chord, focus on themselves and let the world burn if it's going to.
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Work with older women for long enough and you'll stare the grim future in its face. I read someone saying that old people use texting in place of social media, and while it's equally depressing that they sit there texting meaningless shit back and forth, sure as hell beats yelling into the bluesky void and hoping your mutuals will afford you a like instead of replying to a very real thought.

Anyway, granted I'm on the young side of a midlife crisis, I've started stretching. Mostly out of boredom. Speaking of not using your phone: I got half hours here and there where I either sit down to read 'out of boredom' or stretch because I know it'll help me in the long run. I can't really get a grip on stretching regularly, mostly because my hours differ.

I've noticed my eyes acting up a lot lately. Either I see blots here and there that are clearly not just floaters, or I think I see something out the corner of my eye which lends itself more to mental noise than sight. Two people at work so far got issues with pent-up pressure in their eyes needing surgery, and one had terrible experiences with it. I should probably get my eyes checked, also for glasses, but like a real stoic I'd rather put it off than deal with it.
 
Put my back out changing a low beam globe in my truck. Couldn't sit upright properly for weeks. Had trouble shitting because of having to sit down. Next time I may just go into the back yard and shit standing up.
 
UCantCCPMe said:
Here's big secret fellow old folks. Decrease stress. Learn to stop worrying about shit you cannot control and focus on what you can. Right now, at 41, I still have women thinking that I'm in my late 20s or early 30s cause I don't hold on to shit that causes me axiety to the best of my ability. Physically, I still feel 30, minimal health issues, good physique, dick still working and and its all because I refuse stress about everything. This modern world with 24 hour news and social media is creating a sickness that has left people anxietal, over-medicated, lethargic, lazy, fat and aging at a rapid pace. What most people need is to cut the chord, focus on themselves and let the world burn if it's going to.
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Better yet, since stress cannot and should not be avoided entirely, learn to evoke a psychophysiological state that's the exact opposite of the state elicited by a stress reaction.
 
niggercattle said:
Better yet, since stress cannot and should not be avoided entirely, learn to evoke a psychophysiological state that's the exact opposite of the state elicited by a stress reaction.
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Or you could just chill out. Don't make mole hills into mountains in your mind. Stress is unavoidable yes, but that doesn't mean someone should pile on that stress by letting their mind create one disaster movie after another, endlessly spiraling over what might happen and what could happen. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, whatever it is and good or bad, there's no point in stressing oneself over it because 9 times out of 10, it's out of their control anyway. Might as well relax and see where life takes you.
 
UCantCCPMe said:
Or you could just chill out. Don't make mole hills into mountains in your mind. Stress is unavoidable yes, but that doesn't mean someone should pile on that stress by letting their mind create one disaster movie after another, endlessly spiraling over what might happen and what could happen. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, whatever it is and good or bad, there's no point in stressing oneself over it because 9 times out of 10, it's out of their control anyway. Might as well relax and see where life takes you.
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You’re on a website that’s full of people who see random autists on the internet randomly doing autistic things on the internet and take it as a very personal slight. It might not be very easy for some people on here.
 
FedPostalService said:
You’re on a website that’s full of people who see random autists on the internet randomly doing autistic things on the internet and take it as a very personal slight. It might not be very easy for some people on here.
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Well, that's kind of the issue isn't it? Letting the actions of some retard online that they don't even personally know, bother them to the point of ruining their day, knowing there really isn't shit they can do about it. For what? I'm not saying people are wrong for getting invested, I get it. I'm just saying it's not healthy. The benefit of this site should be as an outlet for all those feelings and unfortunately, some will simply use it to fuel their obsession. It is what it is brother.
 
Drive-By Comment said:
About 6 months later had sex in sauna. Got this feeling I have to stop and was wrecked for couple of hours. Pushed it out of my mind, I mean it is really not big brain move to fuck in 85C when you are 40 years old. It is that, not my ticker.

Few months from that was building snow castle with my kid. Got this feeling I have to stop and take a bit of breathing break... Stopping and breathing did not help shit. I was wrecked for couple of hours.
Maybe I just have virus, that covid puts pump in trouble as do many viruses some times, even if you don't feel too sick. Might be just that...
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Could be vitamin D deficiency. I had something similar a few years ago. Took vitamin D supplements for a few months, and its now much better.
 
Wallace said:
Could be vitamin D deficiency. I had something similar a few years ago. Took vitamin D supplements for a few months, and its now much better.
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Well even if deficiency was the cause of such events. If they did leave damage, no amount of D will fix that.
 
reading you geriatrics complain about this that & the other makes me feel good even though I did have to bump the font size up 1 notch on my phone last birthday & if I sneeze wrong I could be bedridden for a week. Also when age verification things pop up I have to scroll that wheel just a little bit longer than I'd like and some fucking kid said I was born in the late 1900s.
Just don't eat like shit all the time, move a bit & listen to your body. Especially if you have family that care about you
PhoBingas said:
I didn't know you could do kiwi jam. I suppose it's a fruit.
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I'd advise against it though ...
sure it looks great with the colour level boosted
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but in reality your just squashing baby shit into jars
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I’ll be 41 this year. Already getting the phantom injuries where I’ll go to bed completely normal and wake up with my right shoulder or left knee or something singing soprano and wonder what the fuck I did to have it hurt so damn bad.

I’m finding more often I tell “back in my day” stories to my young twin nieces too.
 
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