Dudes in your 50s do you feel old and your good days are over and death is around the corner

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Healthwise, anything can spiral out of control and rapidly kill you now. It's over with attractive women.

Your move.

at 58 i dont care about chasing women. I'd rather have a good workout than most sex. there are still plenty of goals to season and progress. and about 1/2 of the year tends to go pretty well. and maybe half of it has compromise due to various injuries.

i would recommend seasoning multiple fitness goals. so that, if one activity is lost temporarily to injury, you can maybe avoid the depression of the lost goal by sticking to the things that arent injured while you wait it out.

Had some of my best running in mid-to-late 50s.

Still running now at 67, and had some good level success. Have some particular goals for 70 if I get there. I'm motivated by competitive goals, which is what gets me up off the couch.

Still working full-time in a career that is a passion.

Obviously look older facially, but really don't care a lot about looks (been with wife for about 25 years), still got my hair (luck of the draw), doing weights as well as running, look in decent shape.

I would accept that I've been blessed in many, many ways, but I what's kept me going are athletic, fitness and career goals that have kept (and keep) me looking forward.

It seems like it's been going wrong for a while now if these are your questions. You're in your 50s??? You should be looking forward to your 30th wedding anniversary. You should be enjoying time with your grandchildren. You should have a paid off house, a Toyota Tacoma with 200k miles on it, and a cabinet full of BBQ rubs. What have you been doing with your life???

You need to get back on track. Start with the Epistles of Horace. Add in The Consolation of Philosophy. You need to interrogate the writings of the wise.

I’m pretty sure that even through my 80s I’ll be in greater possession of my faculties than the nitwit in his 20s who fumbled his way through this ham-fisted attempt at cleverness.

I am early 50s and feel pretty good. Yes, I am old, but compared to most Americans, I am still fitter and more physically able to do things than a lot of guys half my age. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, right?

Sadly, we are a nation of obese, exhausted, over-worked (yet simultaneously lazy) junk-food eaters. By staying super active, running, climbing, biking, swimming, hiking, mountaineering, and doing triathlons, we can stave off a lot of what the rest of the nation is going through...

And it doesn't even matter than I am objectively slow. Yes, middle-aged runners like me are terrible, but compared to the rest of modern humanity, athletes like us are doing pretty well, right?

p.s. Turning 50 is pretty good in other ways too, since you are usually out of the age demographic that worries about money. Those days are over and that is nice... And my kids are at that age now where they seem to be smart and well-adjusted and ready to live their own lives. They are good people and it is easy to imagine them doing well on their own (if/when I keel over).

Yes! Great post. And throw some Seneca in there too.

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Penguin-Classics-Lucius-Annaeus/dp/0140442103?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Bro, forget about the hot chicks part at least. Don't even frame things as "are my looks 'fading'". If you're 56, you are long past cooked. You just didn't get the news yet for some reason. Do you know how many hot younger women have even said "I met this cute 56-year-old runner dork yesterday and I think I want anything to do with him"?

None.

I don't spend any time caring what other people think about me. Too busy enjoying life to care about what someone else needs to say or do to feel better about themself.

technically... Grandpa Munster got pleanty of tail

Unfortunately yes, life ends at 40, and then it’s afterlife.

My days is numbered!

I'm 64 & my looks are fading (who would have thought. Lol). I'm balding, droopy ear lobes, eye bags, crow's feet & sunspots from years of running out in the sun. But my health is excellent - I work out everyday (50/50 cardio-strength training split). And I have good muscularity for a guy my age not on TRT.

I'm also widowed (2 grown kids) & fully entrenched in the dating market. Because I look pretty old in the face (not interested in botox, hair transplant, etc) and not wealthy, I'm not going to get any attractive, young women or any attractive women closer to my age for that fact. What I get on the dating apps in particular is a lot of interest from old bags - many 5-10 yrs older than me. 😯

Now these grannies aren't attractive. Many are overweight & saggy with the unappealing very short old lady hairstyles.😖 Many wear the old lady dresses, high heels & pearls. But these are the types of women that are hot after me on the apps. Lol (some send me numerous likes & DMs).

So, since I don't look like Tom Cruise or Sly Stallone & I'm not loaded, it's either date these old ladles or be celibate. 😆

Everyone's days are numbered, and the number ain't that large. Whatever good looks you imagine you once had, they're long gone. I highly recommend this book.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Die-Ancient-Wisdom-Readers/dp/0691175578/ref=asc_df_0691175578

If all you can value is what you had in your youth then your life isn't going to mean very much, because for most of your life youth is gone. That is if you're fortunate enough to make old age.

60s, full head of hair, married 40yrs, rich, healthy, grandkids, 20:46 5k, Life is just beginning