As a 65yo, I have achieved a certain hard-earned wisdom that may have eluded you. I will share:
1) Just get up and go pee, it's not goin' away.
2) Start the fitted sheet at the hardest-to-reach corner.
3) If you get a cold drink, only to discover that you already had one, drink the coldest one first.
4) Work and feel shitty, or don't-work and don't feel shitty. Don't-work and feel shitty is a lousy choice.
5) Being weird is, in fact, a perfectly normal thing to be. *Everyone* does it.
@kingtor @GeePawHill holy crap I love that and I wish I had known that little rhyme when I worked in a student loan call center.
At one point we had an hour long meeting to discuss how often we are allowed to go pee on our shift, or how long that process should take. Someone spoke up to explain that whipping it out at a urinal is significantly faster than going into a stall to change a tampon, and none of us should be rushed through those processes as it’s important that we all wash our hands afterwards.
Then we all started talking about the different menstrual products until they decided they weren’t going to time our bathroom breaks anymore.
That little rhyme would have been faster and easier, I’m saving that in the memory bank for later, thank you!
6) It is not the big health events that will kill you. You will likely survive your stent surgery and recover from cancer and continue to walk with your new hip.
However you will start to suffer the indignity of a death by a thousand small cuts - a hip that hurts in the night and wakes you up, a retina that suddenly detaches, arthritis in your feet, chronic back pain and so on.
Ageing in effect is creeping disability. Some want to notice it and understand what is happening and what is possible and come to accommodations with themselves as you have. Others choose to ignore.
I remember in the UK when I was younger that some people had a similarly rational response to impending nuclear war.
If that happened they wanted to be a) drunk and b) at the epicentre of the first nuclear warhead that hit the ground.
We all find ways to protect ourselves.
7) If you think that things are bad now go find a person 20 years older than you. They will tell you to stop whining and to continue to enjoy the things that you still can do.
8) Stop trusting your farts.
@RamenCatholic @GeePawHill That is an invitation for one more from me.
9) For those of us equipped with male genitalia - train yourself to go pee sitting down so that it becomes a habit.
It will save whoever ends up looking after you a lot of cleaning as your ability/desire to aim diminishes with age.
Note : this is not mine originally but from an aunt who worked for several years with dementia patients in a residential home.
@GeePawHill you are me hero!
Im going to follow you from now on, will you follow me back?
@braudelan If you are an actual human, my advice to you is to move more slowly. Follow who you follow. Talk to them. Some of them will blow you off. Some of them will answer back.
Some of them will follow you.
@GeePawHill thanks, im new to this game, sounds like good advice,
8) go slowly
I love your “hard-earned wisdom” - especially no. 5 about being weird. 😵💫 Please send more!! 😘
@Su_G First person to react to #5
<3
It is critically important, but folks skip past it like it was a Hallmark card.
Thank you! I am honoured to gain this ‘first’ and to be in such honoured company 😂
@Su_G @GeePawHill It is true! All of us are weird in some ways. I found out late in life (now 72) that I am autistic. And I have always been left-handed. It's only recently that I started owning it, in the sense of seeing the lessons it teaches.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-history-of-left-handedness/
Thanks for sharing the specifics of your weirdnesses!! - & the ‘hard data’ on left handedness over time… It makes the direct relationship to changes in social practices so clear!👍
Also, I’ve always heard that lefties are about 10% of population - whereas your data shows lefties at closer to 12%. The difference between 10% & 12% doesn’t seem like a lot but it’s huge in terms of how many actual people & ‘market share’ (so to speak). In other words you have lots of company!! Do you know whether the graphs are of a certain population? Is it the same all over the world?
Before you left your toot I was the only one responding… so I say: Keep up the weird! 🤗
@Su_G @GeePawHill Measuring a number like this accurately is a challenge: it is a sliding scale, with many ambidextrous people, that will answer this or that, depending on the precise form of the question. A bit like political polling.
BTW I am also an immigrant, a born Dutchman now a Finnish citizen. I immigrated when Finland was still outside the EU. Now, I just feel like a European. But it is fun to realize that those immigrant-looking children of Somali refugees are actually natural-born citizens of Finland and could run for the presidency, while I cannot...
6. Never trust a fart.
7. Never waste an erection.
@GeePawHill oooh also if you’re a woman over 40 and 1 is happening OFTEN try the estrogen cream. IT IS MIRACULOUS.
@GeePawHill I see others have added things, so I'll use 'n'. My perspective is only 61.
n) Get in the pit. It's still fun and carthetic.
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A mod #2?
#2 Start your fitted sheet in the hardest corner, with your wrestling mindset turned to Maximum.
Be kind to yourself and others.
Know and accept that it all cycles, again and again, good and bad times. Enjoy them when you can, endure them when you must.
Wear sunscreen.
Breathe.
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