I humbly believe the age structure goes a little like this:
You spend your baby years, toddler years, preschool/kindergarden years being absolutely innocent and full of wonder.
You spend your teenage years, gathering ideas about the world around you and starting to figure it all out.
You spend your young adolescent years, getting a better grasp of the world around you and understanding. You experience more of what life has to offer you at these stages, better or worse.
You spend your next couple decades of your adolescent years, the 30s and 40s, presumably digging your heels on careers you’ve found worthwhile to pursue or you’re just juggling things the best you can in ways you only know how.
By the time you reach the 50s and then on, thoughts on retirement settle in, thoughts about how you’re going to land your life during the wind down period settle in too. You could still be continuing your goals and ambitions through this point, but this kind of thinking will be coming up more frequently. This is technically the point where your life is just all but mostly over.
Because by the time you enter 60s, you’re wearing down, you get concerned as to how you’re going to make it even longer should you be able to, who’s going to take care of you, what things around your life are you going to settle with and so much more.
Then even further, you’re just waiting for death to come take you because there is barely anything to look forward to. You think it’s going to be as simple as just kicking back in a nursing home and having as much ice cream as you want watching tv, well, very few people get that opportunity. Other old people, who’ve already made it in their younger years, are just finding ways to extend their lives because they can afford nearly anything.
You’re a cheery fucker, aren’t you?
That’s nice, child.
I’m 58, old man.
humbly
You can choose that, if you want. Many people do. It’s called giving up and I’m convinced it’s why people take up golf.
Instead, why not choose to continue to learn? To try new things and have new experiences? To help others? Yes, you may be slowing down physically but it doesn’t mean stopping.
I’m convinced it’s why people take up golf
Lol, I took up golf in my 20’s, after playing disc golf for years.
Though I do think you have a point. It’s just that ball golf is a fantastic game, and you really only have time for it when you’re young or older. It’s why I play disc instead of ball golf today - disc is a couple hours, ball is all day.
Fantastic for creating short cut fields that are a massive waste of water ❤️
Not just water, also waste huge amounts of fertilizer and weedkiller. It takes up lots of land that could be used in a variety of useful ways, or even left natural. It’s privatizing green space so only people with money can enjoy it.
How old are you, got experience?
Sounds like late-stage midlife crisis.
Although I feel with OP.
I am in my very late 40s and often catch myself thinking exactly the same.
Got colleagues on their 50s that live care free with a career and no young children to worry about this is bullshit - people can engage with culture whenever and have a great time. This culture over values youth for sure
When you reach 40, you have the face that you deserve.
When you reach 50, the first glimpses of wisdom come into your life.
Would you throw away all that comes afterwards?
I mean the tone is a bit bleak but basically correct. One thing that drives me crazy about increase retirement ages is people increasingly go downhill as you get up in age and while its few early on in the 60’s is where it happens to the large majority. I have seen it a bunch of times. With retirement age being increased they need a simplified process for people going on disability after 50.
i believe, only reason to live is to contribute to society, because pain and pleasures are temporary, but society more is permanent. So life is over when person lost ability to contribute, Then at this stage, person may choose to take Sannyasa or take prayopavesha(fast until death) or burn oneself with fire in protest.
Well, I suppose your life is over if you just give up.
But if this is your mindset, may as well just give up now, why waste time and resources that someone else could use to make a difference in the world?
Really? Your ignorance draws to too many conclusions, as had others who responded to here. I don’t think I’m the gloomy one here when you just outright say “may as well give up now”. Oh, so edgy. Why don’t you get a clue, grow up and mature a little, huh? What are you, 16? You sound like it. Christ.
I don’t think I’m the gloomy one here
This you?
Then even further, you’re just waiting for death to come take you because there is barely anything to look forward to.
And when confronted about it you double down with insults? You have got to be trolling.
