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re: When did you first realize how short life is?
Posted on 10/5/22 at 2:58 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 10/5/22 at 2:58 pm to SidewalkTiger
When I was diagnosed with heart failure at age 35. 160lbs and 5’10” with fricking heart failure!! Go figure!
Live life, love your family, and be happy. You never know when you’ll go to bed for the last time.
Live life, love your family, and be happy. You never know when you’ll go to bed for the last time.
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Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:00 pm to SidewalkTiger
When I looked back on the 20-25 year old arse I had not pursued, for one stupid reason or another (don't want a girlfriend, rather watch the game, etc.), and realized it was all in the review mirror.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:01 pm to SidewalkTiger
I guess it started to hit me around 40-41 when my kids were starting to get into high school, all of my grandparents had passed away, and in the span of about 10 years another 7 aunts and uncles had passed away. When you're really young, you think those people are going to be around forever. When they're gone, and you're parents are in their 70's, it hits you hard that you are approaching a time where life takes more away than it gives.
This post was edited on 10/6/22 at 9:44 am
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:01 pm to SidewalkTiger
Just now. Reading this thread. Mind blown.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:02 pm to SidewalkTiger
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I can only assume that it gets worse from here.
Nah.
Once you’re into your 30s you’ll likely start to feel a lot more comfortable in your own skin.
Just turned 42 and I’ve never liked being me more than I do now.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:02 pm to SidewalkTiger
I realized how short life was after my divorce, when I realized how old and awkward I felt at bars. Age 30 really hit me like a ton of bricks. I know that I have a lot of life in front of me, but it feels like certain windows are closing, and I’m going nowhere fast.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:04 pm to SidewalkTiger
When my father died at 42, I turn 42 this month. I get where you’re coming from.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:05 pm to SidewalkTiger
When I was told at age 43 that I had incurable cancer. Still alive and kicking at 45 and most people that I know don’t even have a clue. But up until that age, I assumed I’d live to at least 80. Now, I’d be happy if I made it to 50.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:05 pm to SidewalkTiger
When I was a child, my grandparents were "old people" in my mind, and I'm older now than they were then.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:06 pm to SidewalkTiger
I stopped feeling immortal when a friend in the same profession as me was killed during a risky training exercise.
The fragility and rarity of life hit me hard.
The fragility and rarity of life hit me hard.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:06 pm to SidewalkTiger
When both my parents died, and I was in my 20’s.
I get a lot of flack on here for people thinking my views are masculine/Walt, but it’s because I have to be strong emotionally and to work hard. I’m a conservative woman who lives in a man’s world with parents and a fiancé who have all died.
I get a lot of flack on here for people thinking my views are masculine/Walt, but it’s because I have to be strong emotionally and to work hard. I’m a conservative woman who lives in a man’s world with parents and a fiancé who have all died.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:07 pm to StupidBinder
We tend to look back on things as "better" than they actually were and there are definitely a lot of things that I don't miss from back then.
I'm a lot more confident in who I am and what I want, I wish I could tell 19 year old me to not take things so personal and just live life. It's also nice not having to worry about running out of money between paychecks or sweating to death every day at work.
I guess I'm just at the point where I'm realizing you have to enjoy life because it changes quick and flies by.
I'm a lot more confident in who I am and what I want, I wish I could tell 19 year old me to not take things so personal and just live life. It's also nice not having to worry about running out of money between paychecks or sweating to death every day at work.
I guess I'm just at the point where I'm realizing you have to enjoy life because it changes quick and flies by.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:08 pm to SidewalkTiger
I also turned 29 a few days ago. An yeah, the last 5 years have absolutely flown by. I think about it all the time how fast life is. And it will only seem to speed up the longer we're here.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:10 pm to StrongOffer
It's also odd to realize that eventually, my dad or father in law won't be here for me to ask them for advice and I'll be the person that people will look to.
Definitely a lot of responsibility.
Definitely a lot of responsibility.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:11 pm to SidewalkTiger
Get right with the Lord and enjoy every moment. Drink less (not quit), and become a servant type leader. Sounds lame, I know, but we waste so much time looking for problems and conflict. Control what you can control.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:11 pm to SidewalkTiger
Shrewd observations whippersnapper. There are many many much older than you who haven’t figured out anything that has to do with life. Keep making memories, it’s all we really have. Good tidings to you I see a bright future .
This post was edited on 10/5/22 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:11 pm to StrongOffer
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I also turned 29 a few days ago. An yeah, the last 5 years have absolutely flown by. I think about it all the time how fast life is. And it will only seem to speed up the longer we're here.
It feels like 2015-2022 went by in half the time that 2010-2015 took.
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:13 pm to SidewalkTiger
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t's also odd to realize that eventually, my dad or father in law won't be here for me to ask them for advice and I'll be the person that people will look to. Definitely a lot of responsibility.
My great aunt was the last of her very large family. She had something like eight or 9 siblings. At the funeral of the next to last sibling to go, my dad told her, "you're the matriarch now." She replied tearfully, "but I'm the baby of the family."
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:17 pm to SidewalkTiger
every time I think about my dad getting diagnosed with cancer at 48 and dying at 51. I'm 42 now 
Posted on 10/5/22 at 3:27 pm to SidewalkTiger
learned this very young, when I was in the 5th grade a girl at our school and her whole family died in a fire. They had all 5 caskets lined up at the funeral. My father had a heart attack whe he was 33, died from his third one at 51, I was 29. I am 65 now and thankful for every day
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