re: Tell me the perks of getting old

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We have our finances squared away; this cannot be overstated.

For the most part, you finally accept and embrace who you are. You outgrow the need to please others.

Less desire to frick anything with the trifecta of a pulse, bobs and vagene. Better sleep. Less inclination to do stupid shite. I’m 43.

The surprising one for me was you can appreciate beauty in older women.

Twenty years old me thought 50 year olds were hags. Now it's much more, "Oh yeah!"

That I can clearly see the light at the end of the tunnel when I can retire and tell 90% of the people in charge of public education at the district and state level in Louisiana that they're fricking morons.

shite, might do that tomorrow.

There are no perks these days ... except the money. Oh, and trying to outlive everyone of your peers.

Getting old ain't for sissies.

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We are all trapped inside of these aging meat vehicles.

I'm here looking for the silver linings of slowly morphing into a goblin

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The older I get the more I conclude I do not give a frick what other people think, do or say. That being the case I do not give a frick what I say or do...if someone does not like it they can kiss my old arse. Its pretty damned liberating.

The older I get the more I realize I am not going to become rich and powerful, especially through hard work and effort. I can, however, make a damned good living and if doing so becomes to tedious I can tell them to kiss my rosey red buttocks and move on without any financial difficulties. That is about as free as freedom gets in the world.

The older I get the more confident I become that I make pretty good decisions, there is not much of anything I would like to do that I can't do and haven't done, and life is pretty damned sweet even if it is sitting on the back porch watching a cat stalk a bird. I am as happy sitting by a campfire on a lake 15 minutes from the house as I have ever been in Paris or London or Tokyo....nothing wrong with any of those but Appling, Georgia is as enjoyable without the damned hassle.

The biggest benefit is not being driven by sex. Seriously, young men will never understand this but sex causes men to put up with a bunch of shite and do things we would prefer not doing. It is a transition that is not without peril....many men and women both realize their libido is slowing down and panic and act like an idiot to recapture what they visualize was their glory days when in fact they weren't all that glorious. The result of this transition is a far more meaningful relationship with your spouse, if you haven't managed to run her off acting a fool, with less sex but better sex and waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy less bullshite from her or you. The transition is not easy...it causes problems, but if you emerge from it intact you will find you have a relationship based on mutual respect and history and not jockeying for sex. I have been told by single men that this turn of events is even more liberating because they no longer spend an inordinate amount of time trying to get laid and their success rate is about the same LOL.

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ou also start to lose a lot of the fricks you gave at a younger age

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This is essentially what I was coming to post. The things I thought were so important or a big deal 20 years ago, I just chuckle at now