Has age changed you? ?

[Fuzzybabyducks]

Are there things that you use to do when you were younger but do not do or want to do anymore?

I had a birthday recently and realized there are things I use to do but I no longer do anymore at my age .

For example when I was younger I use to go out with my friends on my days off to bars but now we just use zoom or house party to drink and talk.
I use to go to price chopper and talk with people but as I got older I now stay six feet away from people . My fashion has changed a bit also as I now wear gloves and a bandanna over my face when I am out . I don’t even go into restaurants anymore I call ahead and they bring the stuff outside to my car for me. I have even started video conferencing into work meetings.

It makes me feel good that at my age I am able to keep up with technology and styles but I do miss some stuff I did when I was younger . Have also found myself drinking more and playing more video games . .. which I didn’t do as much when I was younger.


How about you? Is there anything you use to do when younger that you don’t anymore but maybe wish you still did? Or do you have anything you are glad you don’t do anymore ?

 

[MMA since 1993]

Yes, age has changed me. For the better.

 

[faustian]

I've found that the age gap between myself and girls I'm attracted to has been steadily increasing with every passing year

 

[genecop]

I don’t cheat on my women anymore..

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

I don’t cheat on my women anymore..

Men?

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Yes, age has changed me. For the better.

I feel that way.

For myself, getting older has come with a process of checking things off the "give a shit" list.

I'm so much less invested in my own opinions and those of others. I just let personal rudeness towards me slide. I don't engage with shit people doing lousy things.

I try to be sickeningly positive in the hope that I manage to come off as mildly positive.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Sadly no.

Still a man child.
My life is great tho, so don't think I'm going to change soon.

 

[A.S. Deep]

I'm getting way more selfish and immature with age, and I love it lol

 

[Blayt7hh]

Yeah but even now that I’m in my 30s I still play a lot of video games and drink to much

 

[TheOneAboveAll3]

Yeah I am starting to get more bitter and starting to see humanity for what it is, shit fucks, not all but more than I thought there were before.

 

[BornOnMonday]

I used to feel things

 

[Skarr]

Are there things that you use to do when you were younger but do not do or want to do anymore?

I had a birthday recently and realized there are things I use to do but I no longer do anymore at my age .

For example when I was younger I use to go out with my friends on my days off to bars but now we just use zoom or house party to drink and talk.
I use to go to price chopper and talk with people but as I got older I now stay six feet away from people . My fashion has changed a bit also as I now wear gloves and a bandanna over my face when I am out . I don’t even go into restaurants anymore I call ahead and they bring the stuff outside to my car for me. I have even started video conferencing into work meetings.

It makes me feel good that at my age I am able to keep up with technology and styles but I do miss some stuff I did when I was younger . Have also found myself drinking more and playing more video games . .. which I didn’t do as much when I was younger.


How about you? Is there anything you use to do when younger that you don’t anymore but maybe wish you still did? Or do you have anything you are glad you don’t do anymore ?

of course it does, as we experience different things we continually grow....

to quote Grissom on CSI......

"What we are is something we cant change, who we are is something that never stops changing.."
((this of course was written before the age of gender reassignment being so popular but the point stands!))

 

[Fuzzybabyducks]

I used to feel things

Like what? Did u like it?

 

[rl4090526]

Going out to drink. Never realized how expensive that is until I started paying for all my bills.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I think somewhere along the way it came full circle, and change started to age me.

 

[Fla graplr]

Drinking and drugs and making a fool of myself are a no go anymore. When I was 22 that seemed like the best time in the world.

My tolerance for women's B.S. is so low now I immediatly distance myself from toxic women when that is what I loved a decade ago.

Being nicer to people because i realize hurting people emotionally has a huge impact on them and myself

 

[San Marino]

...that day has arrived.

 

[Red Beard]

I ache more after doing yard work and I look forward to catching up on my shows. I used to never watch TV and was also built for marathons. I was sore for three days after clearing brush last weekend.

 

[machidafan99]

Yeah Not as needy and not as trusting

 

[Darth_Inv1ctu5]

Yeah I am starting to get more bitter and starting to see humanity for what it is, shit fucks, not all but more than I thought there were before.

This, and also in recent year or so my perception of time has started to cause me periodic panic attacks, I guess it's what people refer to as midlife crisis? Like when you realize certain events have taken place more than 20 years ago but that notion does not gel with how your brain experiences them?

My body's beat up too, part of it age, part of it gym mileage, I jumped out of the bed yesterday when I realized I was a minute late for my 8am conference call, and that's a fucking big-ass no-no nowadays, my back was stiff for the next 6 hours.

One of the biggest changes is patience, as in I no longer have it. For people, for stupid or pointless activities (and it goes back to the whole time perception issue, my brain refuses to allow stupid shit to occupy my time for long). It's mostly a good thing as it weeds out a lot of garbage out of my life, but it can be a problem too because sometimes it manifests with people I care about (when they're just not thinking fast enough or far ahead enough as I expect them to) as well as because life keeps throwing stupid shit your way (mowing the lawn is an atrocious waste of time in any kind of overall scheme of things but still ain't gonna do itself).

There's a base level of anxiety I can't suppress which prevents me from fully enjoying things I used to. I can't seem to "empty" my mind, for lack of a better term, in order to, say, enjoy a gaming session without having some bullshit concern in the back of my fucking head. Like, I can't sit and play a game without some part of my fucking brain thinking about how laundry needs to be done or how I need to patch a crack on the ceiling that my wife mentioned. Shit like that.

It's not all bad and, definitely, not all good. It just is