When you're younger you still have hope, but as you get older and things don't get better that hope fades away. I'm dreading reaching 40 and still not achieved anything, 5 more years don't feel that long.
I'm not middle aged yet, I don't think, but it's nice being older. People make a lot of stupid assumptions about youngsters, and at my age they are starting to leave me alone and accept that I am an adult. I am better off work-wise and my housing is more stable. Health has deterioriated a little, but not so much as to cause serious hassle. What's not to love?
I don't feel middle aged at all. I've been exercising and eating good, so I'm in better shape than I have been in a while. I felt like having a kid, not getting older, really affected how my body started to break down. But with those issues being resolved, I feel much more comfortable in my body. I'm also a lot more sure of my identity and confident in who I am at my age. You spend a lot of your 20's insecure about the world in general.
Worldwide, the average life expectancy at birth was 71.5 years (68 years and 4 months for males and 72 years and 8 months for females) over the period 2010–2015 according to United Nations World Population Prospects 2015 Revision, or 69 years (67 years for males and 71.1 years for females) for 2016 according to The ...
...Yeah but you can't really go by life expectancy cause it's different for everyone, if someone lives to 100 that means they technically weren't middle aged till 50, if someone dies at 40 years old they were middle aged at 20 :con.....in general I would class middle age as 40 to 60 though I suppose the lines could get blurred either side : /
Well I'm 60 and I don't think it's that great. (no kidding) I think I stopped thinking of myself as middle-aged about 5 or 10 years ago. I guess there are positives - but it obviously depends completely on the individual and their circumstances.
I think in many ways my mental health was better when I was younger - and I had a much busier life. My family life was great and my social life was good too. It's sort of depressing when you get older and your looks fade - you become invisible. I wasn't invisible before - I was pretty vain tbh.
I also worry about getting old - actually moreso for my wife. I hope she doesn't get something horrible like Alzheimer's. That would really break my heart to see that.
Edit: I guess the only really good thing is you no longer have obligations, or at least they are a lot less than before. I'm lucky that I have a pretty full life to look back on, plus I have an ex-wife that I'm still close to and a great son. If I had lived a solitary boring life I think I would be very depressed now.
Hard to say. I don't have any major medical issues yet. I don't have kids. So I still feel relatively the same.
I suppose the decline is less obvious for me because I was never beautiful, nor was I ever full of energy even when I was 20. I've always been low-energy and sloth-like.
I think middle age starts soon or varies after 40. If you've ever seen the movie "10", they mention it as "patchwork". Scars don't go away, wrinkles start forming and persist, eye vision focus changes, hair thinning or loss, more white hairs, extra hair starts growing in undesirable places, back aches more, etc.
Ironically, even with all the glut of fad "health" and alternative products out there , it's been reported recently that average lifespan hasn't improved or gotten worse for everyone. So it could be while maybe people can look younger longer, true aging hasn't really been slowed and life threatening diseases and conditions, cancer, Alzheimer's etc. still has much to do with luck in surviving.
Ironically, even with all the glut of fad "health" and alternative products out there , it's been reported recently that average lifespan hasn't improved or gotten worse for everyone. So it could be while maybe people can look younger longer, true aging hasn't really been slowed and life threatening diseases and conditions, cancer, Alzheimer's etc. still has much to do with luck in surviving.
Life expectancy has decreased because the wealth gap has grown. Fewer people, on average, can afford expensive medical interventions that prolong life. So the average life expectancy goes down, even if the wealthiest continue to live slightly longer each year.
I’m not middle aged yet but I miss being stoned/drunk all the time in high school & feeling like the fun would never end & not working or job hunting or worrying about making ends meet every month
But seriously there are pluses and minuses. I've learned some important life lessons with age (34 so maybe just hitting middle age?) like the importance of work life balance and knowing my worth.
But my body doesn't function as well as when I was younger - my lower back is a ***** - and I'm starting to wonder if I'm too old for crop tops 🙂
I do not enjoy middle age.
health is comparatively worse. still don't have a middle class job. still have never had a dating life or a girlfriend or any intimacy experiences.
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