Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Pain.
You no longer don't feel pain. You just manage it.
Yeah.
It seems like an obvious answer, but pain is it. It's not like I didn't know old people experienced body pain when I was younger, it just isn't something you really have to think more deeply about. Once you actually get to the point where you've got one or more chronic injuries and you stop remembering what it's like to have a "normal" day, then you realize how little you had to take it into account when you were younger and how little you understood what it was really like.
And beyond the physical pain, it's just a huge bummer. You constantly have to manage medications, you have to constantly be careful not to do something to make it worse, you have to cancel weekend plans if things go south or stop doing certain things altogether.
Being in constant pain literally changes your personality. You get angrier. More depressed. You lash out at those closest to you.
That was what I was going to comment. If you don't stay JUST AS ACTIVE as you did when you were younger, you just ache. Getting up wrong is a thing. Sitting wrong is a thing. Existing can cause pain.
It's weird and miserable. Luckily there's distractions enough.
YUP! Oh, you want to do an activity, any activity, you enjoy? Look forward to two-to-six weeks of a random body part being in pain from it.
I'm jumping on this to say that there's a good amount of this pain that you can preemptively avoid by taking care of yourself while you're younger.
Not everything. As you get older your body is stepping closer to the end of its lifespan. But if you don't manage your fat/muscles/tendons/etc, you shouldn't be as surprised when you suddenly find yourselves with bad knees that hurt if you ever try to get active again (that's me!).
If you're young: plan.
If you're old: don't give up. Just try your best to get as much quality of life back as you can, so the last few years of your life aren't spent in a hospital or assistive living facility/nursing home/etc.