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I had kids who were in their 20s when in my low 40s and now have a five year old at 60. I am convinced my energy level continues to be good because I'm spendin
by smoyer 2y ago
I had kids who were in their 20s when in my low 40s and now have a five year old at 60. I am convinced my energy level continues to be good because I'm spending it interacting with her. Last week I even fell off the slide at the playground while playing tag :)
- ViscountPenguin 2y agoHow'd that happen, if you don't mind me asking? Do you have a much younger partner, or are they not your biological child?
- smoyer 2y agoThey are not my biological child - were foster parents with the adoption happening soon.
- ViscountPenguin 2y agoCongrats on the upcoming adoption!
- nextts 2y agoEnergy and health are personal. Age correlation with health is just statisical. I had a 75 year old come and drive miles and fix my air conditioning. Fit as a fiddle.
- luxuryballs 2y agoI definitely feel this too, the motivation is there to be ready for anything, because you really have no choice even, like dad reflexes as therapy. There’s something to this for sure from a biological survival standpoint, having kids is naturally the completion of puberty, and the growth you experience raising children has so many more dimensions than the growth you experience while you’re still the one being raised. It may very well be something more fundamental to health than we currently appreciate in modern life. Or perhaps it’s some kind of “law of equivalent exchange” where we have merely traded poisons from one cause of death to another, in terms of life expectancy. It seems we can more easily avoid war and disease and famine today but modern living can end up being a trap that causes a significant number of people to experience a “failure to thrive” of sorts.