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He's experiencing true freedom

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You're assuming he actually knows what he's doing ... he probably doesn't even know where he is
I'm joking but getting old and being old sucks ... I'm on my way there and all I can see and all I ever heard about it from my elderly friends is that it is a world of constant pain, aches and frustrations .... your memory goes, you can't remember basic things (but you can remember a phone number from 1988), your joints ache all the time, your muscles ache all the time, your back is pain, you have a hard time walking, you have a hard time sitting, you have a hard time lying down, you have a hard time standing, you can't hear well, you have weird things happen with your vision, you can't hold, grasp or handle things like you used to
I'm not there yet but after having just reached 50, I'm starting to feel everything ... and feel everything all the time ... even typing this I'm reminded of a constant dull pain with my arthritic pinky finger.
And age also assumes that you'll be able to keep a healthy functioning mind. I can tell my memory is slowly evaporating with age.
- I'm turning 54 this year and yeah, everything is harder and takes more time.
  This is why, without effort, your mind and body start getting older much quicker than you want them to.
  You have to keep your mind and body occupied with tasks, other than the daily routine.
  15 minutes of daily workout do miracles. A body without motion starts degrading at a steady pace. Also, "it's never too late" doesn't apply here. There will be a time, when it's just too late and your body can't hold up to any exercise and start building on it.
  I'm not talking about lifting or building muscle. It's about keeping the body in motion, daily.
  I'm the laziest person and started doing my band exercises at 49 years and my only regret is not having started much much younger.
  From 30 on my life consisted of developing websites, mostly work at home and after separating from my ex wife, unhinged on the bad eating habits...
  During the pandemic, idk why, i got the urge to buy some bands and start stretching those bands until i could get to the next resistance level.
  Orange = easiest / Black = hardest
  You get red, green and blue in between.
  This is all i needed as a motivator for my lonesome exercises lol.
  Seriously, find your thing and move that body
  
  You should absolutely be trying to gain muscle, though. Definitely not body building levels, but as much as you can painlessly put on.
  
  My late 20s I started falling into less than stellar habits. Alcoholism, overeating, not exercising. Few years of that my body weight was a full third higher, I was getting winded going up one flight of stairs, my knees hurt always. It was enough for me to see the writing on the wall so I've changed habits hard. Quit drinking, started tracking calories, biking most days, rock climbing 1-2x a week, it took a year but I got back to a healthy weight. There's still some damage done, my knees suffered some long term damage, it's easier for me to be in pain so I need to be mindful, but I no longer feel like I'll be a broken lump of meat by 40
  
  I was a taxi driver for 8 years. We had a regular, an old lady who worked 2 days a week in a kitchen. She did not want to drive the car herself, because she herself said that she was too old for that and wouldn’t want to risk anyone’s life just because she felt the need to drive (side note: it’s cheaper for most elderly folks to go by taxi when there’s one near them than by their own car)
  Anyway, that woman was mentally and physically not much different from someone in her late 50s. A friend who’s still there told me she’s still the same. She’ll be 88 in a couple of months.
  I also had countless elderly people who just jumped into the VW-Van. Most impressive one was a 103 year old French lady, about 5 ft (150cm) tall.
  And then there’s 50/60 year olds who need walkers, oxygen, crutches, more meds than a battery hen and such.
  I get the feeling that with sloth comes sickness,
- Shit I'm 37 and I have new aches and pains randomly too. I grunt when I get up or sit down. I sit down to put my socks on now. Shit sucks.
  
  I'm 40 and my partner just reaches out his hand whenever he needs help getting up from the group. I'm the shorter one, so I'm the designated "bottom shelf grabber". He's the one approached at the grocery store by other short people who need help grabbing things from the top shelf.
- My dad just asked me what a AAA battery was. The memory thing is real, he's not even THAT old yet
  
  Any chance he might be used to a different name? Like [L]R03 (L for alkaline ones).
- Curious what your profession is and how it is impacted by your memory issues.
- Yeah all that can be avoided if you just don't be sedentary
  
  Nope, age comes for everyone eventually. Ypu can stave off some things by being active but memory loss and senior moments come for everyone.
  
  Usually, but not always. But an active lifestyle certainly increases your chances of a pleasant life later on.

Being old is the same as being young, except you're old now.
- It's funny, when I was young if I went to the doctor and said my knee or my lower back hurt, they'd take X-rays and try to figure out what's going on. Now he just says, "Yeah, that's going to happen..."
- im74andthisisdeep
- Who are you, that are so wise...
  
  Someone who is older than they were last year.

Don't wait until tomorrow, stop giving a fuck today!

Wouldn't that require entering payment details?
So either the doctor's lounge has set up payment for their lounge (why?) or this dude drew out his wallet and paid for it himself?
- Not on my system. Unless you setup a pin, you can just click rent or buy and it goes on your next bill.
  
  Cable TV on a waiting room TV ~~would~~ should 100% be pin protected.
  
  Next what bill? TV bill? Internet bill? Phone bill?
  We fund our TV with taxes here in the Nordics, although I haven't watched any for like 15-20 years almost. (I dp consume a ton of BBC content though, and would happily have my media tax go toward that instead, like a tv-licence essentially.) It would just come out of the wall and I don't think it required even a phone connection on the property, though I don't remember ever being in a house which didn't have a phone connection (even one that was there physically but no bills paid and so not on) so I may be mistaken.
  I think if you wanted extra channels, you'd purchase them from the company selling them and they'd unlock them at your address. Otherwise it was just like a jumble or negatives. Used to watch cartoon network on cable as a negative sometimes. We don't have pay-per-view channels, so I guess just that sort of infrastructure is missing from the TV's and remotes and the US has had it for a long time. I remember references to pay-per-view since the 90's but never thought how it's paid for.
- Its called on demand because they just charge the person paying for the cable service. No card info needed
- Yah this definitely did not happen.
  
  Nothing ever had happens.

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