• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    52? Should be picking out his mobility scooter, not playing “food Rambo” in his Cabela’s get up.

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      24 days ago

      You can very very active at age 52 if you maintain your health. Go to the gym and eat well now so you can avoid picking out a mobility scooter at age 52.

      As a personal antidote, I would say that health is “free” up to age like 30. After age 30 you need to put some work in.

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        24 days ago

        I just picture an elderly gen-xer with his beer belly, dropping his reading glasses in the forest and going OH NO like Mike Stoklasa in RLM videos, and has a heart attack from the strain of picking up his glasses, while thinking that he’s better than when he was in his 20s (a common mental illness among my gen x cohort).

        I call it “Middle Age Delusional Syndrome”. There is nothing better than youth, and our lack of anti-aging technology, or even interest in it, baffles me.

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        24 days ago

        That would be “every day”. And no. But I know a guy who’s my age who does, and he can’t even stand for five minutes and he starts complaining about needing to sit down.