As you get older, the weights get lighter and the threshold for aerobic workouts gets lower, but it doesn’t feel any different. You still feel as if you’re working out just as hard and just as effectively as you always have. You can’t do anything about it, so the bottom line is a big shoulder shrug.
Archive for the ‘Aging’ Category
Doing less, feeling the same
29 June 2019Hoarding
13 June 2019They say that the impulse to hoard grows in a lot of people when they get old. I think those poor people are just trying to hold on to their life.
Plateaued?
13 June 2019It’s easy to think that we’ve reached a plateau, that if you understand email, spreadsheets, word processing, file management, and passwords, you’ll at least be able to muddle your way through modern life. Whereas if you don’t understand those things, you’ll be left out.
But what about ten years from now? What will be the concepts and real-world applications of those concepts that separate the cognoscenti from the rest of us? What will old people be struggling to understand then?
Under the Moon
13 June 2019Everything is feeling ominous to me tonight. The moon is rising among some scattered clouds in an otherwise brilliant blue sky towards the end of a gorgeous day, yet it feels as if the world is ending. Even the catbirds and mourning doves sound odd and alien.
Part of this is from reading the news, which I know I should not do. Part of it is just being really tired (for no good reason). Part of it is being at my particular pre-retirement stage of life, and wanting to be done with everything IT and somehow transition to a simpler existence.
Oh well, watcha gonna do? I’ll keep acting as if everything is okay and see if I can make it through the next 24 hours without losing it.
Work ’til You’re Dead
10 May 2011Wow, that title is a bummer.
As I drift into late middle age, I begin to see that my best years are behind me, that my options are extremely limited, that the rest is not going to be much fun. I begin to wonder what I’ve accomplished in my life, anything. I begin to feel like kind of a breeding placeholder in the larger scheme of things.
Ending and Beginning 