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LangleyBlue1970

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How are you coping with it?

Had a good few tonight, granted.

By my user name, I’m now mid 50s. This week I’ve been to a funeral of a friend’s relative who was in their 60s. I have a friend dying of cancer and another in a stroke ward who was fine until this time last week.

Today I went for a walk and it was a park run in chaddy park. A lot of men older then me, running and all these bright young things loving life.

I don’t like getting old. How you all
Coping with it?
 
63 next week
Had a partial knee replacement last September and am determined to regain fitness and strength so I can get out on walking holidays again

I've had a couple of friends of similar age pass away in the last couple of years and my cousin, who's the same age as me, gets his prostate cancer scan and biopsy results on Monday and it doesn't look positive

I'm definitely retiring next February
 
I`m 75 and over the past 12 months I have had a new hip,cyst removed from my neck, cataracts removed,4 x lesions removed from my chops and yet I regard myself as lucky. I still have to walk with elbow crutches due to my continued back pain and I feel so fortunate that I`ve attended literally 10/12 funerals over the past 18 months, many of them younger than myself.
Now and again I`ll think about death but its more to do with those I love who`ll I`ll be leaving behind and I have planned my funeral arrangements with my wife and its all written down.
To date I regard myself as being a lucky person with my health, compared to a lot of other people.
I`ll keep taking the tablets and Guinness & IPA`s for as long as possible.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
How are you coping with it?

Had a good few tonight, granted.

By my user name, I’m now mid 50s. This week I’ve been to a funeral of a friend’s relative who was in their 60s. I have a friend dying of cancer and another in a stroke ward who was fine until this time last week.

Today I went for a walk and it was a park run in chaddy park. A lot of men older then me, running and all these bright young things loving life.

I don’t like getting old. How you all
Coping with it?
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Let me die a young man’s death
not a clean and in-between
the sheets holy water death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I’m 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I’m 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber’s chair
may rival gangsters
with ham-fisted Tommy guns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I’m 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a young man’s death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
‘what a nice way to go’ death
 
66 tomorrow ( Sunday) just wheres it gone paper round to pension. I blame them two kids until they came along it was plain sailing then it seemed like always paying for Christmas. Been retired 10 years and couple part time jobs since. If you can put anything away for pension it comes fast ( I know difficult to do) I had disaster and company pension saw me through. Anyway
.keep smiling
 
There is no upside as I see it. You are an irrelevance in every respect. You feel an outsider in society that only listens and caters to the needs of younger people whose values and interests you do not share. All you see around you is decay and neglect at an accelerating rate. Our politicians are pygmies and even more self-serving than ever but we no longer have a media prepared to hold them to account. Every morning the landscape just gets a fraction bleaker.
 
Earlyriser said:
There is no upside as I see it. You are an irrelevance in every respect. You feel an outsider in society that only listens and caters to the needs of younger people whose values and interests you do not share. All you see around you is decay and neglect at an accelerating rate. Our politicians are pygmies and even more self-serving than ever but we no longer have a media prepared to hold them to account. Every morning the landscape just gets a fraction bleaker.
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Yep glad at this end but remember our kids know no real difference like us with our parents we knew better or thought we did
 
I'm 57 and f'ck me some of the things in the world today make me feel old.
It seems to have changed so much and so quickly since lockdown in covid.
I hardly recognise it anymore.
Anyway dug my 2 old weight benches out in the garage the other day and thought i'll try and start some reps again every time i get back in from walking the dogs ( i used to train alot from my 20s to mid 40s).
I always found it was as good for the mind as it was the body back then, so lets try again, FOC style
 
I'm 56 and I hate it and the thought of getting even oldder.

Yes I know some people don't even make it to 56, so I should be grateful, but it really depresses me.

I hate the fact I've probably got about 20-25 summers left (at that)

I hate how I ache all the time and every movement I do, results in a noise - standing up, sitting down, putting on my socks, climbing the stairs, etc.

I hate the fact how I didn't appreciate time - where do all the years go??
I remember being a young, strapping 18 year old with all of my life ahead of me and I wish I'd appreciated my time better.

I hate that I won't see how it all pans out for my kids, my grandkids, for City.

I know I'm not exclusive to all of this and it comes to us all, but I really struggle with it at times.......it's all a bit shit!!
 
Earlyriser said:
There is no upside as I see it. You are an irrelevance in every respect. You feel an outsider in society that only listens and caters to the needs of younger people whose values and interests you do not share. All you see around you is decay and neglect at an accelerating rate. Our politicians are pygmies and even more self-serving than ever but we no longer have a media prepared to hold them to account. Every morning the landscape just gets a fraction bleaker.
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Saw Bad Bunny on tv the other night. Load of crap, Bugs was miles better.
 
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