Getting older, how you do guys (and gals) deal with it? - Page 2

a good sense of humor helps as you get older.

getting drunk or stoned in my experience gets old as you age. you might cut back on that stuff.

getting to bed early and cutting back on tv helps too.

don't feel like you need to go out and make the social scene all the time either. leave that to the youngsters.

looks like we've got some pessimists here! ah well, i'm too young to know how you feel anyway. i, on the other hand, am very optimistic about the future.

Lets see now, im still young and beautiful but I have the answer to that one: you find yourself a fine woman who will stay with you when you grow old, thats how u cope wit it

I'm in my early 30s and things do change. As you get older, there are more things to be bitter about and you do tend to get a little cynical. You have to work a little bit to keep it from consuming you.

However, I've also found that as I age I tend to enjoy little things more intensely than I used to. A good meal, a nice walk, or a healthy "roll-in-hay" seem to mean more than they used to. I guess the up-side of becoming cynical is that you come to realize just how precious the good times are. Who knows, maybe it somehow balances out.

I am 25 and unless I get a job soon I will look 50 on my next birthday

Dealing with ageing - play more videogames and wear your cap backwards






















(please dont take my advice if you value your life )

Thank God (Jebus, Buddah, L. Ron Hubbard or whomever) my youth is over.... Youth is wasted on the young as they say, it certainly was on me anyway. So many existential issues to deal with, so many choices to make, so much uncertainty--- combined with a total lack of experience to deal with those very same issues. In youth you are blind, stumbling around in the dark with no idea where you are or even what you are looking for.

Personally, I don't get older, I just get "better". I am soooo glad all that cr*p is over with....

This spoken by someone who was DREADING turning 30 (as a teenager) and now that that's 5 years gone, I can't imagine what I was so scared of. Youth is WAY over-rated, IMHO, and thank goodness for that.

Men aren't worth a darn until they turn 30, totally unreliable and incoherent. There's a reason many women prefer older men....

Live life through your kids.... its a blast.

Garrett

Cry a little bit

Just kiddin.....

There's good and bad about it. Currently at 42 and counting.....

Bad things include:
Drinking 3 beers puts me to sleep and then I feel like crap for 2 days after.
Everything hurts, cracks, pops or is sore.
Having to take drugs just to feel normal.
Hitting on the young babes makes the mall cops to follow you around

Good things are:
I'm making more money than ever before in my life.
The guy the grocery store calls you "Sir".
My Bull**** detector is much more finely tuned now.
I can look at new cars, stereo's, furniture, etc. and be taken seriously because they know I might actually buy something
Older babes hit on you and follow you around (not sure which list this should be on)
Even though my body feels about 60, my brain still thinks it's 25.

See the problem with getting older is you lose all respect for the young, thinking of them as being "in the dark" and "not knowing how to deal with anything", you then act accordingly. If thats called getting smarter, plz shoot me now

I think a lot of people do that, and it seems to work. I don't have kids ( after helping raise 4 much younger 1/2 brothers and sisters, I wasn't interested ) and I find one of the negative things about getting older is boredom. Not that I don't try to keep busy and amuse myself, but I've always tended to have a short attention span about most everything, and after 51 years of an active life, I find the "been there, done that, not overly interested anymore" syndrome often kicks in. I think that's also what makes time seem to fly by faster as you get older.....all the "firsts" and "unknowns" in your life are in the past.

Your first kiss, your first love, your first concert, your first fancy restaurant, your first car, your first plane ride, etc. etc., makes most repetition of these things seem perhaps not boring, but anti-climatic...at least not nearly as awe-inspiring or memorable as they were when you first got to experience them. I'm sure many of the old-timers can relate to talking with an old friend you haven't spoken to for a year or two and the conversation going something like " So what's new? ... Not much, how about with you?.... Not much.". Obviously you've both done something in the past year or two, but for some reason it doesn't seem worth mentioning or remembering.

I guess living through your children is a way to at least partially get back that wonderment, but in a way, it seems sort of sad as well .... like you've given up on your own life. I'm probably wrong, but it seems like your remaining years would fly by even faster that way.

BANG

Nah, as a kid/teenager/college student you think you know everything and that no one can tell you anything (I sure did), then you encounter the real world, and then in your mid-to-late twenties you realize you know absolutely nothing, the education you received did absolutely nothing to prepare you for your real, actual future. The things your parents always told you start to ring true (much to your chagrin and embarrassment). Only later do you get actual, real-world wisdom...

It will happen to you, too..

If I could only just go back in time and sit down today with the me of 15, 18, or 21 and have a heart-to-heart "chat", ohhhhh, all the great info/wisdom I could impart. My life would be TOTALLY different. I expect I'll be able to say the same as my 60-year old self talking to my current 35-year-old self...

coma, no offense, but I'd rather get drunk. Great idea Rick.

That's one option. I prefer Homer Simpson's method .... Hide in the corner under some blankets and hope everything turns out for the best.

Dammit you just wrote my guide to life. one caveat tho - the other person's happiness is also tied to your own, so don't forget the "dream big" and "take care of your body" part - no spouse likes to see the other stuck in a rut and unhappy, especially if they get guiilt thinking that it's a result of "taking one for the team" to make the family happy. it's actually healthy to make yourself happy as well, don't forget! *end surefire speech to justify a new headphone to the wife*