Do you fear getting old?
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No | 49 |
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No | 49 |
What's to fear?
You wake up every morning with aches in places you didn't know you had when you were young.
You are less agile than when you were young. You are slower (mind & body) than when you were young. You are less attractive to the opposite sex than when you were young. You have less hair (if you're a guy) than when you were young. You can't see as well as than when you were young.
But you have more money than when you were young You are (theoretically) wiser than when you were young. And you have more time to spend doing the things you want to do than when you were young.
And death becomes something inevitable and much less something to fear than when you were young, because, if you've done it right, you have few regrets for things you didn't do than when you were young.
Yes. And death. It is terrible, to imagine that in 60-70 years, I won't be here.
I don't want to be a shriveled up person that has lost all touch with the times, has a shitty body, and dosent know whats going on
I never want to be old. I'm afraid of being old, but I'm not afraid to die. It doesn't make sense to me.
I am looking forward to when I have my life more put together and a wife to take care of and for her to take care of me and not have to stress as much about where I'm going to be when I'm 'older' but I'm not looking forward to the health problems and death.
To an extent. I don't think I'd call it a fear in the sense that some people fear spiders or snakes or heights or flying - I don't freak out when I think about it or anything - but I don't want to be old and I certainly don't want to be dead.
Not exactly. I don't want to die, though, and getting older is essentially just getting closer to death.