Tips sought on coping with middle age

[Aro]

Youngsters...

Well, young man... It's gonna be worse!

(Just kidding... but not so much.... )

Btw, I'm 52, almost 53...

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by self biased
sympathy, you mean.

Empathy (from the Greek εμπάθεια, "to suffer with") is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly experientially feel the emotion of another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

Sympathy, OTOH, is what I feel for people who make jackasses of themselves by wrongly trying to correct other people's english.

[Alexander's Horse]

there must be more to life than saving for retirement

[Jon Miller]

Eh, don't bother with retirement.

I admit that my EVE playign isn't very satisfying really.

JM

[Chemical Ollie]

The best way to survive the Middle Ages is to avoid the Inquisition and the Black Death

[Addled Platypus]

drop the second digit of your age


behave accordingly

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by gwillybj
I also am 43 and sometimes feel in crisis, so I play more games and spend more "quality time" with m'lady

this is the feeling exactly

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm 44. At 43, I took up the tenor sax. That helped.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I'm 44. At 43, I took up the tenor sax. That helped.

Hey, do you and your DL have different birthdays?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Hey, do you and your DL have different birthdays?

I have no idea what that means...

[LordShiva]

http://apolyton.net/forums/member.ph...o&userid=42133

[pchang]

I usually

put research on high and race for gunpowder.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by LordShiva
http://apolyton.net/forums/member.ph...o&userid=42133

It ain't me, babe (click on my profile)...and I object to the attempt to steal my identity!

[LordShiva]

Well, now I don't mind that you missed your birthday thread

[Grandpa Troll]

Im 47 and I ponder many thoughts men my age are faced with. Immature people aside, men wont talk about things often but feel alone.

I think so little of my fellow man who when married goes out and cheats on his spouse while hiding behind"Im trying to regain my youth" BS.

Men who in middle age sometimes start looking at things around them that were important but now dont seem so. Same with ideas and ideals, they change as well. Young blood often makes men think about job security.

Men in middle age deal with health issues from high blood pressure to sexual inabilities to other medical realities.

The cutbacks in the world economy hit many men who have been doing the same job so long. Not a lot of companies want to invest in a man who has 15-20 years left when it will take them more money to attract and for a lesser amount can hire a younger person to do same job and often with more energy and enthusiasm. Probably because younger men still believe they can change the world or reinvent the wheel. Us older men know we must often times do our jobs but simply keep the wheel running, lube it from time to time but just do our jobs. No metaphor there people.


Life is happening so fast and we probably start to see more clearer just how short life really is.

I seen a lot and been through a lot, now life is not so slow, its like a ball rolling down hill, picking up speed,kicking @zz and taking my name

Gramps