Posted on 02/02/2020 5:55:52 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
I’m 50 years old, which means that roughly two-and-a-half years ago I passed the unhappiest point in my life.
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At 48 years and 80 days I first noticed that my brain didn’t have automatic recall anymore.
I think the disparity between the private sector workforce (where more and more people are being forced to work into their seventies) and government workforce plays a role as well; cops can retire before 50 now with 25 years on the job, and they don’t have the retirement income or health insurance concerns as the people who pay them. Even unionized workers (like UPS drivers) can get out at 55 with the pension and health insurance - and the latter is what keeps most of the private sector working until at least 65.
Even people who saved for retirement intending to leave at 62 are now staying on solely for the health insurance aspect; their savings/assets can disappear in one illness if uninsured.
My best year was when I was 47. My business got bought out by a big company. $$$
Every day above the grass is a good day.
A gift from G-d.
That’s why we call it “The Present”.
Stop complaining. Think about all those that will never have another tomorrow.
As long as you have LIFE, grab every ounce, every second, every morsel . . .
Dont waste a drop.
So many sayings and quotes come to mind. So nany loved ones are gone, and we are still here.
Live well, for them.
Approaching fifty was tough, mentally. Approaching 60 was much easier for me.
Hmmm 1999 ... the year I met some amazing women ... then came 2000 and colorectal cancer and ‘the droop’.
Kidz, ax yo daddy ...
Sage advice, and I follow it everyday.
I’m very close to that supposed rock-bottom age and I’m doing better than I have in a long time.
As an Old Geezer I can’t remember when I was 47 everyone has their ups and downs in life you just plow through them now I’m pushing 82 and hanging on.
“Did you time travel back in time, join the army and got deployed to Afghanistan?”
In 2001 I was fat, dumb and happy in my Army Reserve unit, then came 911, 5 months to the day I landed in Khandahar. Six month later I was off active duty with a new appreciation of how lucky I was to be in the USA.
Wait ‘til he reaches 60.
Norm McDonald - “I was in the greatest shape of my life at one. People said I looked young for my age. They said ‘You look great! How old are you, zero?’ I said, ‘Thank you, but no. I’m one!’”
....”career, children, spouse, money, saving for a retirement, etc.”....
And some just bail out on all that and go on there own. Raised and provided for their kids and family as their duty and now they do their own thing. I see that happening a lot today.
Treatment was humbling but effective.
More importantly it helped me focus on LIFE.
The following summer I was lifting more weight than before and climbing 14ers.
That was 13 years ago.
Poo pond bring back memories?
Hey Rappini....heard about the grounds keeper for Super bowl today? He’s 91 and still hanging in there. His dad died when he was 10 and a family friend was a football grounds keeper and gave him a job he’s been at it now for 79 years.
I get a kick out of people who don’t know what it is to ‘hang in there’ thru the rough times.....that’s just life as it comes and then goes.
You’re a late bloomer....
Well, I guess I don’t fit the pattern. The low points of my life have all been situational, and have landed at ages 24, 34, 38, and 42. I’m 54 now and doing okay enough. I think the worst is over.
I’m with you mate. Looking down the barrel of 80 this summer. Looking back, life is a series of mistakes, heart breaks, recovery and victory. How and if you overcome adversity is key and you must have faith, patience and dogged persistence to prevail. It is not easy.
That’s a long time.
What do you see as the greatest contributor, or the greatest way to address that, if I may ask?
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