I have wrinkles, I have grey hair, I have back problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, I can’t remember anything, the world seems confusing and complicated to me now and I wish things were simpler (which is why I like Lemmy). I definitely don’t get kids today or their music.
How am I so old?
Come on kid. You’re still pretty young! I’m 58 and aside from the damn arthritis and multiple surgeries with my wrists and hands, I’m okay. Like @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee, mine would have also been a typewriter in that case. I love tech and try to keep up as best I can. I absolutely love music and try keep up and am always seeking new and undiscovered music in the genres that I love which spans so many genres.
For getting older, we just got to take care of ourselves as best we can. Eat not terribly, get a bit of exercise. Even if it’s just taking care of the yard or walking the dog. Take your meds if you have them. Please do this part. I lost a really good friend at 52 because he didn’t take his high blood pressure medication.
I feel several comments here have already covered how you can change, but I want to give you something different.
It’s ok to be “old”, you don’t need to understand the youth of today, or even like anything they do. Just don’t yell at them, or look down on them for doing it.
Live and let live.
It’s sometimes odd to realise that what I consider to be retro (retrogaming is one of my hobbies) was once cutting edge. This post makes me feel weird emotions.
Haha, I’m so old that box would contain a typewriter.
Anyway young people like to think they have some control over ageing, like they can be thirty forever. Sorry to say it’s not going to happen. There’s things you can do to stave it off, but it will catch up with you. When you’re young you don’t think about it, you take it for granted. When you get old and feel the loss you think about it a lot.
Age caught up with me noticeably at an age older than forty something, but I’m really feeling it now. Forties are young enough where a health regiment of some kind can improve sense of well being. If overweight just getting down to an ideal can help greatly. I’ve had to battle my weight most of my life and when I can maintain a good weight it makes a really big difference in how I feel.
As far as not getting modern culture, it goes ten feet over my head now. I wish I could live in the the 90’s forever.
I have back problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure
As someone who waited way, way, way too long too lose weight, let me recommend that you review your situation with a doctor.
I’ve lost significant weight in my 50s and it’s completely turned my health around. Cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, almost every indicator was dangerously of whack. I was on a boatload of medications, it was doing jack squat.
Now I get tested and everything is where it’s supposed to be. I’m down to small maintenance doses for blood pressure and triglycerides, and I’m off the diabetes medical entirely.
I don’t know if weight it a problem for you, but if it is: you can get it under control.
