Aging sucks. I think with the tremendous computing resources presently wasted on vapid AI slop and endless fart videos, we could instead use it for anti-aging research.
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I've abused my body so much with drugs and alcohol and crowd surfing at concerts and late night dance parties and raves and vaping and smoking before that (actually quit for seven years; starting again was the biggest mistake of my life) and junk food and fast food. Even now that I have a pretty healthy diet and we like to go hiking, I know how much I've taken from my future. I don't expect to live much past seventy, and maybe not even that. But then again, I was sure I wouldn't reach 25 and that came and went.
You sound like the type of bastard that lives to be a hundred.
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Tbf when I was 8-9 years old I thought that 14 year olds were fully grown adults.
Same
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I’m in this picture. My hair went grey and I have a quad injury.
CoTL followers be like
I'm about to turn 40, it's all true
Just wait until 40. It's like going down a step with your eyes closed without knowing the step is coming. Very jarring and painful.
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I'm reminded of this old Catwoman PS2 game clip.
Anyway, they're not entirely wrong. I doubt I'll live to even 84, so I have passed halfway through life and my whole body hurts when I sleep longer than 7 hours.
So I resonate with the "I know I will die soon" line.
Those kids nailed it.
I'm 40 and my body is literally falling apart and in an hour or so I'm going to my local urgent care for internal bleeding they're probably going to send me to the ER for.
So yeah, these kids were pretty much spot on. No wrinkles though. So I've got that going for me.
... name checks out... shit.
Urgent and "in an hour or so" - wait wat? You must be a fellow American. At least we got Freedom tho, right?
Anyway I hope it doesn't turn out to be too serious.
Totally American.
I've been put through the ringer by the American healthcare system enough already that I wait as long as possible before giving in and getting help. I've been bleeding for a few weeks. It's almost for sure an ulcer. Here's hoping they don't do what they've done in the past, which is mis-diagnose me or make me wait months to see the wrong specialist.
Peptic ulcer is one of the floors of hell that has no end or exits. Got one at 22 years old; best friends still at 47. The magic words to your a primary care Dr is "request an upper endoscopy" and "referral to gastroenterologist".
Just run of the mill internal bleeding. No big deal.
As long as the blood is on the inside I'm not seeing the problem?
That's where blood is supposed to be
These are... Not inaccurate.
"When I am 40, I will have lost my will to live over 20 years prior. I simply wait to die every day. Occasionally I try to do things I think I might enjoy, only to be proven wrong."
This is me at 30 tbqh
I met one of my neighbors kids the other day. They're new to the neighborhood so we were talking about the ages of his family members compared to mine. He just turned 6. I asked how old his dad was and he said 50 or 60. I could see his dad across the yard and he's definitely younger than me. I asked how old he thought I was and he said 70. I'm 36. Kids can be meaner on accident than assholes are on purpose.
Jesus christ, how much do people smoke in these comments to habe wrinkles in their 30's?! It's completely possible to be wrinkle free at the exact age of 40.
I'm just depressed. I've had frowning wrinkles since highschool though.