Aging sucks...
 

For those of you who have been very physically active how have you handled the depression (is very slight) when you realize your body can no longer do what you want it to do?

"One of these days, when you're older, you will sit on your nuts".
~Bob Goldthwait

be more specific. Knee injury?

Play bingo

How old are you?

Eh... I'm 38 years old, and while I have some aches and pains I didn't feel years ago, I guess I'm not to a point where I am suffering enough to relate. I sure can't fap a dozen times a day anymore.. or maybe I just don't want to.

Could always be worse. Every day, I watch my neighbor across the street take about an hour (wheelchair) to get himself into his car.

So as far as dealing with the depression (without knowing the extent of age issues), I'd say to not take the good aspects for granted.

Knees (have had surgery on one and it is becoming arthritic), achilles (have had one reconstructed and the other is beginning to have the same injury symptoms), two bulging disk in lower back, have separated both AC joints (one is arthritic), tears in both RC's, and arthritic fingers on both hands.

Only 38 and I can tell a tremendous slowdown in recovery and amount of 'pain' over the last year. :(

You been on a lot of Anitbiotics through all of this...?

getting older is what it is, but it beats the other alternative

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No, I very seldom take any antibiotics. the only drug I use on regular basis is Advair to control Asthma.

I think of Angelina Jolie having to cut off her bazongas...

that depresses me.
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No depression for me, it is just the reality of how things are. I often catch myself wondering wtf happened, I was just a kid not too long ago.

Some of the rewards help offset the issues of aging, like knowing I only have one more year to work after 50 years of working for the man. Then it is going to be my time, all the time. Well, when the Mrs. says it's ok it will be. :D

Probably the most irritating issue is how much more difficult it gets to keep the weight off the older you get. When I was 38 I dropped 20 in a couple months without a problem, in an effort to get my drag race weight down. Now, I have been trying to drop 20 for 6 years now, and it is a losing battle. Walk 3 miles every morning and ride my bicycle to work, not helping. Became a gym rat, and have torn a few muscles, but haven't lost the weight. :banghead:

"you know you're over the hill, when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill" Lowell George, Little Feat Ole Folks Boogie