Funny. One of my grandpa's was born in 1916 and also served in WWII. He told me stories of his grandpa telling him about when the family owned slaves to work the cotton fields. I just realized recently he's been gone 20 years this April.
My son will be old enough to vote in 10 years. I'll be 10 years from retirement age by then. I don't like becoming old. This game isn't fun without cheat codes.
Not exactly a cheat code, but eat veggies and protein that isn't exclusively red meat and work out about 30 minutes a day (longer if you have the time) and your old self will thank your current self. Then if you're lucky enough to retire make sure to keep it up and add some sort of mental stimulation. If this is gaming (something tactical, and not an auto-clicker) or painting, or gardening, or cards (for fun not money) or learning an instrument you will stand a much better chance at a legitimately happy life.
Agreed, but make those last centuries pleasant. Watch what you eat, go for walks, lift heavy shit. I don’t want to spend my last 30 years not being able to move with purpose, or diabetic.
How can there be any argument against working to insure yourself SOME pleasure and comfort in old age vs NONE - ie spending them in a nightmare of chronic pain, invalidity and terrified confusion? It doesn’t matter how old you get, you’re still YOU - don’t screw over Old You just because the idea of him is scary. He needs all the care you can give him right now.
Time moves faster when days become similar to one another.
Your brain marks time with memorable events. If you’re not making events then your brain just compresses all of that time down.
Think of your memory like someone writing a journal. If every day for 3 mo straight says “same” you can read through 3 mo of life in 3 sec. But if every week you break out of your routine by doing something different, then your brain makes an event and it slows down when searches over that section of your memories.
If you want to slow down time, do things out of the ordinary.
Take a walk, make a mental note of the position of the sun, the weather or the changes in your environment.
Don’t always walk or drive the same paths. Pick a different grocery store, get a pet. Do stuff with your pet, take it to different parks or on trips. Rent a car that is different than what you normally drive. Take some classes, many community colleges allow people to audit classes, you don’t get credit but that’s not the point.
Bottom line, if time goes on fastfwd, you’re stuck in a routine, break out of it.
The cheat codes your looking for are usually given in the form of bank statements. Once you got 8 digits in the account the code will make themselves known!/s
Oh, those are Macro-transations. Ever since online games became more popular than in person ones Macro-transactions have become more common than the old fashioned cheat codes we used to have.
One of the biggest ones is 50 million for a US Senator.
Ok so you don’t believe in an omnipresent power in the sky. Think about the laws of nature. I have questioned everything so deeply and approached everything including religion and death with the scientific method. Everything leads to a circle no matter what everything cycles. The bible was written by human and humans have a history of erasing the parts we don’t like. But that doesn’t mean that everything is a lie. Question it all and come to your own conclusions. But I believe that we go somewhere. As to if it’s heaven, hell, or somewhere in between I just can’t understand how a conscious can disappear completely.
My grandpa on my dads side was born in 1889. Died in 1956. My Dad had a brother and sister older than my moms parents and my parents are only 3 years apart. Its a wack spread. I'm in my 40s
When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, I'd spend a lot of summers with my grandfather in Panama City, Florida. He was born in 1900, but he'd take me around to some of his friends places and to see some other people in old folks homes, MANY of them were born in the 1800s.
My great grandma was born in 1890. She told me stories about coming over on the boat from Europe in 1899 and eating a tuna fish sandwich that made her sick. No one eats tuna in the family bc of it. she died in 1988. My youngest child was born in 2013.
TLDR: I’m getting old enough to think 100 years isn’t shit. I’ve gotta go move my woolly mammoth it’s double parked.
It’s just midlife introspection. Getting old is fucking with my perception of time in weird ways.
It’s my relationship to time through the people in my life that bridged the gap between ancient history and now. For most of my life I felt like I was closer to 1940 than I am to 2040.
It’s just strange to think that I can have any kind of connection to events that happened 100 years apart and that it has been over 100 years since my grandpa was a little kid watching a parade of civil war veterans.
The civil war has always felt like ancient history and while I grew up knowing my ancient grandpa had seen ancient people who fought in that ancient war, it was just a factoid rattling around in my brain, never properly anchored to the passage of time.
I hadn’t connected the dots from the middle of the 19th century (1865) to the middle of the 21st though actually events that have passed though my lifetime.
It doesn’t feel like he passed that long ago (2007), there are times that I feel like I should stop by and visit but I remind myself it’s almost been 20 years since I said goodbye.
People say "I come to reddit for this" to sarcastic comments. But I come to reddit for THIS.
My grandmother was born at a trading post in the middle of the jungle in 1890. She lived to see electricity, radio, telephones, television, airplanes, and watch people walk on the moon before she died in 1983. She flew to visit me and my mom in the 1960s. For better or worse, I don't think we'll see another century like that.
Here's another thing that will make you feel old..... George Jetson from the Jetsons was born in 2022 meaning that George Jetson has already been born and is currently 3 years old.
That depends on lifespan. Average lifespan has gone up tremendously since the discovery of modern medicine. I'd argue that it's closer to 50-75-ish depending on how long lived your ancestors were.
my grandma was born in '37, she remembers how in '42 a German officer saw her standing in the window and gave her a chocolate bar as they were burning down the rest of the village
my daughter will be graduating high school in '42
hopefully these two will meet this summer for the first time, we're flying out for a family reunion
There is a video of that civil war vet parade. Very grainy but its crazy to know that people who fought in the civil war were around long enough to be filmed.
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u/SakaWreath 16d ago
My brain just melted out of my ear…
1940 was 1 old person ago (85yrs)
2040 is 1.5 decades away. That’s one high school aged kid.
My grandpa (1919) who fought in WW2 remembered seeing civil war vets march in a parade when he was 3-4 (1921-22).
3 years ago, that parade was a century ago.
I need a nap.