Does life just get worse and worse as you get older?

If you could have somebody leave you a crap load of money, economic freedom, along with a practical attitude, balanced love, not getting hitched to some hellcat, freedom from the cubicle farms and no major addictions.

Get up and either go for a run or play golf.

This is club paradiso, and be careful where you stick it.

Life is pretty good and has never been better and I'm 31, single, fairly well off, and love my job..guess I'm lucky.

I'm 55 and loving life. My work is enjoyable, I'm still running well (although a lot slower than in the past, so I guess that part sucks a little bit), I'm involved with a great gal and her kids, and I've got good friends and family. Of course, all of that could come tumbling down at any time with a bad medical report, but isn't that true for all of us? As txRUNNERgirl wisely pointed out, to a large extent life is what you make it.

yes...but not until you get into your 40s.

not a serious runner wrote:

but aging really is a disease and accumulating damage is a physiological fact. maybe different people may have different optimal ages like that, but high schoolers and college students are both young people. after certain age, if you have not reached your peak years, then your peak years are going to suck anyway, and you really do not have optimal years at all.

not necessarily. i know people who've had the happiest years in their 50s and 60s.

i think the important thing is friendships. all the material things don't matter - the person who said about realising how little you need to be happy is spot on. it's about the quality of your day to day life and the relationships you have with people (i dont just mean romantic relationships) which are fulfilling.

Larry Darrell (sort of) wrote:

Most of us are Zoo Animals. We don't start out that way but as soon as we can, we go find a safe place with bars and lock ourselves in and tell everyone how important we are in comparison to other Zoo Animals.

Read "Razor's Edge" by Somerset Maughn. Pay particular attention to Larry Darrell who is the hero of the book. He seeks two things. Freedom and enlightenment. I am not religious so I am not advocating this book for any other purpose except to say that it shows that a person does not have to be trapped.

I am in my 60's and life is great. The price is non conformity to how others think you should live your life.

Are you a zoo animal?

Do you live in a house with eletricity,water,ect?

Buy the things you use at stores?

Must I continue or do you get it yet?

BS coming from your lofty cage?

The real prison we all share is our short fragile lifespan.

You never plan for some things. I always thought it'd get better when I grew up, because I was raised really poor. I managed to get my 2 year degree and a job making modest but better than I grew up on. I ended up disabled. You never plan for these things now I am living on less than I grew up on. It's been embarrassing and painful to go through.

I'm stroking off 3 or 4 times a day, life is good.

You are a smart man to move to Thailand. I have spent over a month of my life Thailand, Singapore and Maylasia. Life is much less expensive and less complex over there. Thailand is especially less stress and thus much more enjoyable. Keep having fun!

Interesting thread.

Fifty one

In your case just read comic books.

Once you get into your 40s, life does start throwing more bad things your way, but you are mentally tougher than you were at 20.

yes, and it will get ESPECIALLY bad if the GOP gets control of both the house, senate AND white house

find a regions you like, move to where there are few people there, get a weapon, learn to grow your own food and wait for THE END...it's on the way

thank you WALL Street, the not-so-Supreme Court, DeLay, Hastert, Ray-gun, Issa, both Bushes and the Teabaggers

yes wrote:

yes, and it will get ESPECIALLY bad if the GOP gets control of both the house, senate AND white house

find a regions you like, move to where there are few people there, get a weapon, learn to grow your own food and wait for THE END...it's on the way

thank you WALL Street, the not-so-Supreme Court, DeLay, Hastert, Ray-gun, Issa, both Bushes and the Teabaggers

You realize your middle paragraph is ultra-conservative, what conservatives have been preparing for ever since that Democratic President Woodrow Wilson who we have to thank for the private Federal Reserve, WWI (and thus the Depression and Nazis and then WWII, etc), etc. Like Obama and the Democrats will let you keep that weapon, food, and land. Obama sent weapons to Mexican drug cartels to get Americans on the borders killed, and have an excuse to seize all private firearms, research Fast and Furious. Obama and the Democrats have always worked for the collapse of the USA so they can rule it like the USSR.