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> Except that the most interesting part of life is over What makes life beyond 55 uninteresting?

account73466 7y ago
less interesting
deepaksurti 7y ago
Or may be what he means is that enjoying the experiences with the money in hand (leisure, travel) might not be as good as that in the youth, typically assuming health issues due to ageing.
rootusrootus 7y ago
I think that depends on who you ask. People in their 20s still think people in their 50s are old.
- hultner 7y ago
  In my world 50 isn't that old in this day and age. Most people I know at an age around 50 are healthy, active and enjoy life often even more then people in their 30s with young kids and everything else around that.
  - shantly 7y ago
    Professional (Fussell's Upper-Middle) class or higher? That's wildly different from the more Middle-and-under sorts of 50-year-olds I'm familiar with. That's the decade when they tend to start to look tired all the time (more so, I mean—that kind of "oh they're finally permanently broken" tired) and start having health issues & surgeries that seriously damage quality-of-life.
- pc86 7y ago
  Life expectancy is somewhere roughly in the 70s-to-80s. So it's not entirely surprising that if you tell someone "statistically, I have as much remaining time to live as you've been alive" they're going to think you're old. Now if you actually step back and move the early part of life where you can't do much you can see it's much closer to middle-age than it is to death.
  - losvedir 7y ago
    Interesting. I could tell that to myself, but I don't feel old.
imesh 7y ago
Heart surgeries, joint replacements, kidney failure. Stuff like that. Good for you if you don't end up with those issues... But they are common for a reason. Take a look at your parents/uncle's/aunts and you will have an idea of what your 60s will be like. I'm watching my father and all his siblings have different issues in their 60s and I have suddenly realized that lifestyle can't beat genetics. I haven't quite figured out what to do with this new realization yet.

less interesting

Or may be what he means is that enjoying the experiences with the money in hand (leisure, travel) might not be as good as that in the youth, typically assuming health issues due to ageing.

rootusrootus 7y ago

I think that depends on who you ask. People in their 20s still think people in their 50s are old.

hultner 7y ago
In my world 50 isn't that old in this day and age. Most people I know at an age around 50 are healthy, active and enjoy life often even more then people in their 30s with young kids and everything else around that.
- shantly 7y ago
  Professional (Fussell's Upper-Middle) class or higher? That's wildly different from the more Middle-and-under sorts of 50-year-olds I'm familiar with. That's the decade when they tend to start to look tired all the time (more so, I mean—that kind of "oh they're finally permanently broken" tired) and start having health issues & surgeries that seriously damage quality-of-life.
pc86 7y ago
Life expectancy is somewhere roughly in the 70s-to-80s. So it's not entirely surprising that if you tell someone "statistically, I have as much remaining time to live as you've been alive" they're going to think you're old. Now if you actually step back and move the early part of life where you can't do much you can see it's much closer to middle-age than it is to death.
- losvedir 7y ago
  Interesting. I could tell that to myself, but I don't feel old.

imesh 7y ago

Heart surgeries, joint replacements, kidney failure. Stuff like that. Good for you if you don't end up with those issues... But they are common for a reason. Take a look at your parents/uncle's/aunts and you will have an idea of what your 60s will be like. I'm watching my father and all his siblings have different issues in their 60s and I have suddenly realized that lifestyle can't beat genetics. I haven't quite figured out what to do with this new realization yet.