RE: Advice on a personal matter
March 5, 2017 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2017 at 8:52 am by mlmooney89.)
I don't understand the fear of getting older but then again I'm not afraid of death and honestly I have felt like I was in my thirties since I was 17 so maybe once I reach my forties I will start being fearful.
I just see it as looks are not worth getting upset over so it keeps me from being afraid of looking older. I see the more time you spend on earth the more you learn and you aren't some ignorant teenager anymore so that's a plus of getting older. I just hope that I go before I get so old and infirm that I can't take care of myself and become a burden on others. But that's a long way away and I can try to work hard to provide a future where I won't burden others or I can make the decision to end things myself if need be.
I get that you have anxieties about other things that you are linking to getting older but honestly I don't see how they can really relate at such a young age of thirty. Mind you I'm going on 28 myself here in a few months. Life expectancy is so high these days you could live your life twice over still. You will get only depressed if you think you are old at 30.
Also just to remind everyone that life doesn't stop at a certain number I have a customer at the bank I work at that is 83. He still drives himself around, still works full time at the construction company he owns, and over the past year he and I discussed him loading a pick up truck full of construction stuff and how he was going to go drop it off at the site. I was floored especially cause he had just been a wreck (not his fault) and had broken limbs and a busted face and he had bounced right back! He is 83 and doing more physically labor than I do. He isn't wealthy but he is working and happy.
And another guy just told me yesterday that he is getting married this week... He is in his late sixties. I'm so happy for him.
Age is nothing darlin.
I just see it as looks are not worth getting upset over so it keeps me from being afraid of looking older. I see the more time you spend on earth the more you learn and you aren't some ignorant teenager anymore so that's a plus of getting older. I just hope that I go before I get so old and infirm that I can't take care of myself and become a burden on others. But that's a long way away and I can try to work hard to provide a future where I won't burden others or I can make the decision to end things myself if need be.
I get that you have anxieties about other things that you are linking to getting older but honestly I don't see how they can really relate at such a young age of thirty. Mind you I'm going on 28 myself here in a few months. Life expectancy is so high these days you could live your life twice over still. You will get only depressed if you think you are old at 30.
Also just to remind everyone that life doesn't stop at a certain number I have a customer at the bank I work at that is 83. He still drives himself around, still works full time at the construction company he owns, and over the past year he and I discussed him loading a pick up truck full of construction stuff and how he was going to go drop it off at the site. I was floored especially cause he had just been a wreck (not his fault) and had broken limbs and a busted face and he had bounced right back! He is 83 and doing more physically labor than I do. He isn't wealthy but he is working and happy.
And another guy just told me yesterday that he is getting married this week... He is in his late sixties. I'm so happy for him.
Age is nothing darlin.
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