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You might get better answers / discussion if you asked: How has aging affected your intellectual capacity? Referring to aging as a curse creates a bias. Furth

You might get better answers / discussion if you asked: How has aging affected your intellectual capacity? Referring to aging as a curse creates a bias. Furthermore, calling it a curse is false. Aging is a fact of life - at least at this point. Best to embrace it. Resistance is truly futile. But to answer your original question: Aging has had some affect on my capacity. But what I've lost in quantity, I've gained at least 10x in quality. I've also become, and perhaps this is personal, focused less (and less) on knowledge and fact, and more on understanding. That is, how things connect. What makes people - including myself - and systems "tick". It's enlightening, and certainly not a curse.

groffee 4y ago
Just because it's a fact of life doesn't mean it's not a curse.
- jjgreen 4y ago
  YEA though the long bony finger of DEATH beckons you towards senility, incontinence and the cold eternal grave, think to yourself: could be worse.
  - chiefalchemist 4y ago
    Oh? And all the joy and blessings prior? Just brushed aside? Sounds like a case of one foot already in the perspective grave. Yeah, the years to follow could be punishing. But alas, there is always hope.
    - jjgreen 4y ago
      Could be worse: you could waste your life fretting about it, and it happens anyway.
- chiefalchemist 4y ago
  Curse: - An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something. - Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal. - A source or cause of evil; a scourge. And who or what put this "curse" on you? True story: It - whatever it may be - is all in *your* head. Life is too short to...curse yourself. Sure, pray the cancel culture cancels aging. But until then, suck it up cupcake and deal with it (and your self imposed "curse").
- thanatos519 4y ago
  All facts of life are a curse when you consider life to be a terminal, sexually-transmitted disease.

groffee 4y ago

Just because it's a fact of life doesn't mean it's not a curse.

jjgreen 4y ago
YEA though the long bony finger of DEATH beckons you towards senility, incontinence and the cold eternal grave, think to yourself: could be worse.
- chiefalchemist 4y ago
  Oh? And all the joy and blessings prior? Just brushed aside? Sounds like a case of one foot already in the perspective grave. Yeah, the years to follow could be punishing. But alas, there is always hope.
  - jjgreen 4y ago
    Could be worse: you could waste your life fretting about it, and it happens anyway.
chiefalchemist 4y ago
Curse: - An appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something. - Evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to such an appeal. - A source or cause of evil; a scourge. And who or what put this "curse" on you? True story: It - whatever it may be - is all in *your* head. Life is too short to...curse yourself. Sure, pray the cancel culture cancels aging. But until then, suck it up cupcake and deal with it (and your self imposed "curse").
thanatos519 4y ago
All facts of life are a curse when you consider life to be a terminal, sexually-transmitted disease.