From any hopes for a bounceback in career, a healthy love life, a more active friend circle .etc
For me it’s when you start entering your 50s. You start to think more and more in how you’ll end up being as you progress in age. Thoughts of the idea of how to maintain your health and how so much now is going to affect you set in. Thoughts on potentially retiring start setting in.
Things like getting friends and dates won’t be impossible, but they’ll be incredibly hard to get. Even if you have either, they most likely will not turn out how you expect to be whereas when you were younger, you had the time and energy on your side.
Careers and where you’ll work will just dry up where you could likely be stuck just doing retail work for the remainder of your life or any minimum wage position.
Very few people make a difference in their 50s or already had their life planned out to where they’re fine in their 50s. But a lot of the time, people really don’t.
It’s over if you decide it’s over. I’ve known people in their late 20’s who have given up on all that already. And I’ve known folks well into their 70’s who are happily married/dating, traveling, doing hobbies, healthy, etc.
If you give up on life, then of course you won’t get anything out of it. I hate how people act like getting older just means you become boring, weak, ugly, broken down, slow, etc.
If your life is over when you turn 50, it’s because you chose to let it be over.
Wondering how old OP is, where they live, why they expect to be so lonely at 50.
10-20 years older than my current age. The number keeps moving as I get older.
As a kid: grown ups are lame.
College age: I never wanna be middle aged.
In the workforce: I can’t wait to retire and do nothing. EtcWhichever age your heart stops beating permanently. Thatll be the end of it.
The fuck? Do you know anyone 50 years old? I’m in my mid 50s and work full time, still have two kids at home, go to yoga, lift weights, hang out with family or friends, go to shows, walk and play Pokemon go, grow a food garden, basically just live a pretty good life.
In terms of giving up, I don’t think it’s an age, more to do with conditions, a spouse or child dying or a chronic illness. So for some people it happens young and for others never. I did aerobics with an 80 year old lady and at the end of class she put on roller skates to go skate around the bay on the long sidewalk because she was retired so she could basically just play all day.
ETA: I think being able to be satisfied and happy is a life skill. Some people can’t, they just never learned to. What is all that career progression and running around for, if you can’t be happy with the life you build?
You start to think more and more…
No, this is what you are apparently doing. Knock it off.
This post is a rant consisting almost entirely of your own self-limiting beliefs. Got that? Beliefs. And they can change. You can change them.
whatever age it is that you die
It is implicit. You cannot have life without death, nor can you have an end without a beginning. There is no past. There is no future, and there never will be. The past exists only as a manifestation of memory just as the future is merely a manifestation of expectations. There is only now.
At what age do you consider life to begin??
if you want to make changes. start now.
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When you get too old to take care of yourself and have to go into assisted living; you’re basically waiting to die at that point. Until then you can do whatever tf you want.
My MIL had a good life in assisted living for several years. Most of her life was devoted to taking care of her husband. After he passed she got an apartment and became good friends with many of the other ladies there. They were always laughing together at dinner, watching movies, and playing games. There was a singer who would perform on Friday nights and they would all giggle about how handsome he was.
That sounds like a senior community, not assisted living. Assisted living is when you’re put into basically a hospital room with another person and your live is micromanaged for you. You dont really hsve any freedom and often cant even leave your bed without permission. All of my grandparents were literally begging to die the entire time they were there.
I think there’s a lot of people’s lives that are generally over by some of the responses in the comments and the scoring. Geez, screechy people.
