YersiniaPestis wrote:
When you start to realize your parents look to you for advice, you know things have taken a turn.
The depressing thing about being older is that you realize all your "Bests" are in the past (sex had, meals eaten, accomplishments at work, mental acuity, athletic achievements...) No matter what you do, it will always be less, or worse.
That is true for the most part but I have found that by learning and doing new things, I can experience a lot of new "bests." I took up the sport of rowing in my 40s and knocked out some solid PRs, which I am sure are terrible compared to what I actually could have done in my 20s, but for me, they were my PRs and they felt like it.
I can still do other things for the first time and do them better than when I was in my 20s if they require patience, curiosity, money, experience, etc. I think I can do a better "trip around Italy" now than I could have done at age 20, for example.