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Physical age vs mental one.
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If you’re peeing 87 times a night, may I suggest you see a BC-Urologist ASAP. 😁
Anyways, the whole idea behind the glass water is that it just partially fills you, that way it curves your hungers urges.
I can attest I’m actually on a ‘weight cut’ from a bodybuilding bulk, and I’m averaging about 120 ounces of water currently now, and I think it’s contributed a lot to my weight loss.
[And yes, I urinate quite a bit during the day due to the excessive water consumption].😁
I think the most important thing versus the context of how you look based on your age, is how you feel. If you have the notion that you feel younger than really what your age depicts, I think that plays into the role of what I posted above directly contributes to genetics/sleep/fitness/diet, etc.
Biological age: How dare you ask!
Yeah, that old.
Physical age: feels like 103
Mental age: acts like 3 1/2
Yeah, that old.Physical age: feels like 103
Mental age: acts like 3 1/2
I think "the problem" -- pick a size-- has got bigger sooner... not just due to "the internetz" and the related cornucopia of info (and somewhat distorted examples of human behavior) but because each generation by its own self indulgence has incrementally broadened the extent to which kids prematurely lose the shelter of a traditional childhood.
Granted, not every one of us who's older may have received anything as nurturing as a "traditional" childhood, with fences gradually removed and structures gradually imposed. Nonetheless our human brains do need about 25 years before we're really equipped with contextual skills and the capacity for judgment required of an adult.
A kid is lucky today to have a "childhood" that lasts into the lower years of middle school. We're still discovering the effects of vast swaths of kids who while not "raised in a barn" have not had the same levels of attention paid to their upbringing as even they themselves may have received, and I'm certainly not talking about some stereotype of a child from an urban ghetto. More responsibility gets thrust upon schools even as parents resist the idea of anyone but they themselves having a hand in their children's upbringing. Some of the administrators and teachers are not necessarily more capable of raising a kid than are the parents... the beat goes on, and to the detriment of society,
Certainly the way we are as adults now in general is to the detriment of the kid who used to be relatively "innocent" of the ways of the world until at least 10 or 12 years old. Now everything's in the kids' faces and they're all potentially jaded by the time they're seven... but they're still children and incapable of making their way through the mazes we've created for them.
Who the hell knows what it's like to hit those supposedly magical teenage years today. They were always more hassle than magic because it's hard to grow up even when it's time to grow up. Now it can seem like those teenage years just offer all the kids a gaping hell on earth, free for the peeking and even if you don't want to look. I don't envy any parent of a teen nowadays. But I mostly don't envy the kids.
My take on it is this. the younger the child the smaller the issue as we get older the more complex and involved our problems are. An issue with a teenager is certainly going to be a bigger/more involved problem than that of a four-year-old
This really has nothing to do with technology but rather human nature. While a 2-year-old not getting their way may feel like the world is ending for them, its clearly a smaller problem then for a teenager who didn't get asked to go to the prom. In both cases the problem feels larger then life but in the scheme of things neither problem is earth-shattering.
Small child, small problems, large child larger problems ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Calendar-wise, I am 21, but I often feel I've lived much longer than that. I'm an old soul.
I know a lot of pretentious youngsters say that, but I at least have been mistaken for older on the interwebs more than once, and I take that as a very nice compliment!
I know a lot of pretentious youngsters say that, but I at least have been mistaken for older on the interwebs more than once, and I take that as a very nice compliment!
I adopted three kids when I was 23. I did not find them any more challenging than I did when they were kids. Now all are in their mid-30s and are very successful. They tell me it is because of how I raised them and how I did not treat them as their biological parents did. Perhaps that is because I was not that far from their age and understood what they were going though--at least that is what they think.
This is why I feel pretty damn young I think.
Sure there are mechanical things that get to me at times--my knees have a touch of arthritus now, but that is mostly due to overuse (or so my DO tells me) and punishment due to all the hiking I do--I average about 1,900 miles every year of moderate to hard hikes. Plus I walk the dog 5 miles a day at a brisk rate (where he has to trot). Perhaps that activity is also contributing to the difference.
I also consume a lot of liquids (decaffinated iced tea and water) and avoid alcohol save for the occasional beer (it takes me a year to go through a case--and I live in the Northwest!). I also do not eat late either-and if snacky that is what the carrots, celery, and apples are in the fridge for.
All this is most likely why I have no cholesterol issues and why my annual physical is mostly clean (save again, the knees).
This is why I feel pretty damn young I think.
Sure there are mechanical things that get to me at times--my knees have a touch of arthritus now, but that is mostly due to overuse (or so my DO tells me) and punishment due to all the hiking I do--I average about 1,900 miles every year of moderate to hard hikes. Plus I walk the dog 5 miles a day at a brisk rate (where he has to trot). Perhaps that activity is also contributing to the difference.
I also consume a lot of liquids (decaffinated iced tea and water) and avoid alcohol save for the occasional beer (it takes me a year to go through a case--and I live in the Northwest!). I also do not eat late either-and if snacky that is what the carrots, celery, and apples are in the fridge for.
All this is most likely why I have no cholesterol issues and why my annual physical is mostly clean (save again, the knees).
A saw a fridge magnet a while back which read
"Just when I've finally got my head screwed on tight my body starts to unwind"
Just about sums it up for me...
"Just when I've finally got my head screwed on tight my body starts to unwind"
Just about sums it up for me...
I turned 50 this year. I don't feel that old, but none of my similarly-aged friends do either. So the reality is that we simply don't know what 50 is meant to feel like, although the relatively healthy life here in Switzerland must help somewhat. I'm sure we look old to a 20 year old.
Bravo. Feeling age is usually based on physical abilities or lack of and experiencing limitations. A healthy lifestyle is the best approach to fighting back the inevitable.
48 physically and about 9 mentally.
wish healthy food tasted as good as the bad oneBravo. Feeling age is usually based on physical abilities or lack of and experiencing limitations. A healthy lifestyle is the best approach to fighting back the inevitable.
On physical appearance vs chrono age: I remember resenting it when I kept getting carded long after I was plenty old enough to drink no matter what state the darn bar was in. I was asked for ID once during the late 1970s, in what was then the John Hancock Center in Chicago (now called 875 North Michigan Avenue), when my BF and I were headed to the restaurant and bar on the 95th floor. I assumed at first the velvet rope handler's problem at the elevator in the lobby was that we were dressed in jeans, but he said no no it was just that "the young lady must be 21 to go upstairs". I was 36, 37, somewhere around there... and indignant. Heh. Those were the days!
Now in my late 70s though I'm pretty sure I'm not taken for a spring chicken. Anyway no one cards would-be customers when they're just trying to buy bottled water in the supermarket during mud season around here, a time when local water has occasionally been rumored as way too interesting for my taste.
Physical vs mental age: Yah. Well. I'm in my second childhood since I was about 35 and bought my first piece of personal computing gear. It's all toys all the way down cellar and up to the attic as well. I expect I'll die awaiting shipment of some piece of gear no matter how old I am before the reaper gets a grip on my address.
Now in my late 70s though I'm pretty sure I'm not taken for a spring chicken. Anyway no one cards would-be customers when they're just trying to buy bottled water in the supermarket during mud season around here, a time when local water has occasionally been rumored as way too interesting for my taste.
Physical vs mental age: Yah. Well. I'm in my second childhood since I was about 35 and bought my first piece of personal computing gear. It's all toys all the way down cellar and up to the attic as well. I expect I'll die awaiting shipment of some piece of gear no matter how old I am before the reaper gets a grip on my address.
I have noticed that some people age mentally at the same rate as their body ages. It's like they have this agreement with the universe that things will be in certain way and people behave in that way. I believed that the mind, spirit, soul, elan vita or simple consciousness transcends time. Everything moves but me.
Brilliant.
Some of us were born old souls, and I think I was one of them.
Actually, youth didn't suit me at all, my temperament was all wrong. While I remember the fizzing energy of youth, and the brooding restlessness, I also remember the awkwardness, the anger, and the alienation.
What I had then, and still have, are questions and curiosity, about life, the wider world, and the universe.
LOL that's me talking to myself some days but more like
"Silent Generation s'posed to keep mouth shut, but your doin' your coffee grind wrong."
"Shut up, I saw they were black beans before I actually pushed start on the thing."
Lizkat has let the ol' autocorrect make a grammatical error in my previous post up there. I can't win. Some of my own typos are wacky enough to raise an eyebrow sometimes (or even trigger a filter) but autocorrect often either goes completely off the reservation or makes an ungrammatical guess at what I had meant to type.
Today my mental age seemed up to an indicated task, namely declining to do what I've decided is more appropriate for someone else to do these days. A smoke detector's batt had begun to chirp and I asked a much younger person come over here to swap out that one and a couple others as pre-emptive strikes. There are plenty things I can still do but getting up on ladders is not something I choose to do any more.