Aging is a sobering experience.
- 1.Your body isn’t the same. Things catch up with you. Maybe you broke an ankle at 18. It’s not a big deal for a while. Then you find your ankle aches, then you get some sharp pain. You cannot walk with ease. You have to plan out how to get somewhere before the pain becomes unbearable. By the way, this can apply to knees, lower back, hips and any other joint. You never thought about them until they hurt.
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- 2.You lose touch with people that mattered to you. Some friends move. Some shut down due to their own problems. Some simply forget about you. Time changes people and relationships.
- 3.Maybe you got divorced and feel outclassed by the youth driven dating scene. It becomes too much effort. In your day, people didn’t find dates though apps. You don’t know how to meet people now.
- 4.Your relationships with your children have deteriorated. Maybe you were a shit parent, and you don’t know how to make amends. Maybe your kids moved away and don’t know how to include you. Maybe you didn’t get along with their spouses. They side with their partners, not you.
- 5.People die. Your parents are dead. Maybe you lost a sibling. Maybe your spouse of 30 plus years died suddenly. Life is painful, but you don’t want to die.
- 6.You live in a country with unchecked ageism. Your job wants you to retire or lays you off. People refer to you as old when you still feel full of life and creativity. You are on the street to get groceries, and you get mugged because criminals see you as an easy target. Life is not safe.
I’m not saying that all of the above has to happen. But some of it will. So yes, they are tense in a world that no longer welcomes them.
