Getting Old

[Slappy McGherkin]

Stop comparing your life to other people's, just make the best of it.

This. I've loved fishing since I was a kid drowning worms in a mud puddle. I grew. I studied what success means in big game fishing. I executed. I've created big game lures that people beg me for world-wide. You can find super success in something you learn, grow, and believe in.

I'll post some tournament winners when I'm on the computer tomorrow. But bottom line? Find something that means something to you and make it happen.

Life is too short to wallow in self-pity. Seriously.

Edit to add pics.

Spoiler: Big game lures

My hobby is creating these.

 

[Cranky Old Broad]

Getting old doesn’t depress me. Losing loved ones, however, certainly does. Yes, I know, that happens to everyone, young or old but living longer makes it more likely to happen with greater frequency.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have any regrets. Roads not travelled, choices not made, that sort of thing. I don’t dwell on it, though, because I can’t change a damn thing.

The only fear I have about aging is becoming an Alzheimer’s victim, which happened to my mom. But if that happens, I guess I won’t know about it after a certain point. There’s a certain dark humor in it, I suppose.

 

[Look over there]

If anyone is going to figure out how not to die, it's going to be me. If not, well what you can't change you must accept.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Death is great, dying less so.

 

[Sandraker]

Used to worry about the future way more a couple of years back often putting myself in plenty of what if scenario hoping age wouldn't come so soon, but all that worry started to get put into something more productive.

Age is inevitable and tomorrow isn't promised to you in the first place so its good to make most of your time and enjoy it day by day.

 

[Cats]

You're getting old, John...you're getting old....

 

[turdburger]

Getting old is better than the alternative to getting old.
I feel worse for people who are terminally ill and will never get old. I also feel bad for people who peaked too early and were successful at school or in their twenties, because nearly all of them seem to end up dead on the inside with boring lives that never live up to that, and they're the ones always reminiscing about the past.
Besides, as you get older, you start to come to terms with death more. I've known a few old people who had good deaths and were ready for it. They'd done everything they wanted to do, and it was too late for anything they hadn't done, and accepted oblivion over a deteriorating body in a world that was increasingly irrelevant to them.
What I do find I worry about, is that I'm in my 40s now and I definitely looked better in my 30s, and I certainly will not look better in my 50s, and that at some point I am not going to be able to have sex because either I'm not attracted to people my own age or they aren't attracted to me. But I could be worrying over nothing because women in their 40s are definitely better than women in their 20s. They seem to be far more confident about their bodies and the psycho ones who try to entrap you into getting them pregnant have all disappeared.

 

[Consider Lizärds]

People who won't try learn a skill because "someone will always be better" are totally missing the point. The joy is in the doing, the getting better. Doing a thing you love, a thing that challenges you to do better, that's a great thing. It will fill your time wonderfully, fuck the abstract competition of who is better, enjoy what YOU do. How you fill your days is what it's all about.