How old is "old"? FWIW as i got "older": Health: when young I suffered muscle pain when I worked out. At 40 the pain changed to a skeletal pain, which wasn't

How old is "old"? FWIW as i got "older": Health: when young I suffered muscle pain when I worked out. At 40 the pain changed to a skeletal pain, which wasn't nice. At 60 it started to be more tendonitis than anything else. At 70 it's gone unless I suffer an injury, whereupon weird stuff happens, e.g. hand injured a little in a fall, subsequent cat scratches cause the injury to flare up, time to get an antibiotic injection - strange! I feel heavy, especially when I lay down to sleep at night. OTOH I'm working out more consistently than I ever have, my weight is down from 220 to 185, and so probably I'm more dense. I'm much quicker than I ever was: I catch falling objects mid-air, stop other's falls, intercept slips and, in general, am scary quick. This weirds me out a bit. I have heard that some people are quicker than others but, other than extremely obvious cases of physically slow people, didn't believe that it was possible for one person to be significantly quicker than another. I've changed my mind about that now. I have no known serious problems - everything is working fine, and am primarily concerned about my CV system: all else will IMO follow. I take a low dosage statin but I may not need it. More importantly, I'm realizing the simple frailty of the human body and so have re-evaluated different activities: driving (still do), cycling(won't do - crazy in my city!). Back pain: had it since I lifted too much weight 40 years ago. Almost debilitating in the last 2 years until I found some simple exercises that made it go away. Most every man will suffer at least one serious back injury - if you do, you just have to keep searching until you find the fix that works for you. Advice: 1. Don't ever ever pick up more weight than you've picked up before unless it is a real emergency, 2. If a sexual opportunity seems too good to be true, it probably is - don't accept it. Herpes(or worse) is no fun, no matter how the herpetic community may spin it. Note to my younger self: don't touch the beautiful blonde! 3. Always take the highest offer but be ready to walk out if things go badly. 4. Don't fall for the sunken-cost fallacy - if you're in a bad relationship of any sort then get out early and consider yourself lucky. See "The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli for more. This especially includes love.