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To watch your body deteriorate more and more, and your brain as well. It makes life harder, little by little, every day.
Old people don't do so many things anymore because they just can't, because it gets too hard.
Not doing things anymore that you have always done, that is one definition of dying (some start it very soon in their life). In the end you don't do anything anymore.
I disagree, most of that is very much manageable. You can age very gracefully if you invest into yourself. In fact I do much more in my 40s than I ever did.
Unforeseeable circumstances like injury or illness aside, much of the bodily degredation people succumb to is voluntary. Our bodies are very much "use it or lose it" and if you're sedentary and disregard the importance of diet, you'll have a bad time.
I'm already seeing this and regretting this in my 40s... relatively young, but a lot of little problems that my peers brush away as being inevitable, i know i could likely have avoided if i was more active in my youth.
And all thesr little issues pile up over years until people throw up their hands and say "its just getting old, nothing i can do!!"
Its all about probability. Nothing in guaranteed. But i could probably avoid a lot of issues if i was more aware and active in my youth...
I'm super active now, and i aspire to be like an 82 year old man i met who walks 20km every day
Things like arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are life changing, probably more common than you think, and probably affecting younger people than you think.
Not really.
Very little is really in our control, after all, despite what the medical world loves to shout at us.
Not saying don't work at it (do what you can) aging is a real bitch and causes changes we simply have no way to prevent - and not just disease, just aging.
Wat? The first sentence was an acknowledgement of illness and injury. I'm not discounting those realities at all.
In the context of the message you were replying to you were definitely downplaying the proportion of people's physical problems that are not in their control. The fact you did a slippery slimy acknowledgment that uncontrollable problems exist at all doesn't absolve you of that.
"slippery slimy" wow, ok.
What a hybris.
Not really.
Very little is really in our control, after all, despite what the medical world loves to shout at us.
Not saying don't work at it (do what you can) aging is a real bitch and causes changes we simply have no way to prevent - and not just disease, just aging.