Sunday, January 15, 2023

What happens to old people who don't want to age?

I am 45 and i never wanted to age. I did a lot of stuff against it (including dietary supplements) and for the longest time i thought it would work quite well. I felt young, i behaved young, and i still wanted to do exactly the same things that i did with 25. Many guessed my age between 10 and 15 years younger than i actually was.

But here was the setback, the one thing i did not consider: All effort to stay young finally depends on how other people see you. And unfortunately many people, especially young girls, their friends and families, think much different about a guy who is 40 and about somebody who is 20, at least once they know his age. This is the one big problem with “not wanting to age”. If you are 40 and you want to live like when you were 25, guess what: There will be 20 year old women that tell you that you are “too old”. There will be people that insist that you cannot belong to a party with young people any more, that you cannot be part of the exclusive world of young people any more.

So what happeded was some kind of midlife crisis. A depression following the realization that you loose many of the opportunities that were important to you because you get older.

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