re: Why do people consistently fall into the trap of complaining about everything as they age

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spread positivity?

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Thinking it's your job to be the positivity police for the world is incredibly self-centered jerkoff behavior.

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Stay away from booze, smoking, drugs and shitty food

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well that's like your opinion man

And Keith Richards just called and said to frick Off

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Thinking it's your job to be the positivity police for the world is incredibly self-centered jerkoff behavior.

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Thats an impossible thing. Im not recommending that, rather the idea of not adding to the negativity that is already happening. You cant control others, only yourself. You using others being negative as an excuse to do the same will just encourage the next guy to do the same.

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I’ve always been an avid college football fan but as that has been destroyed by greed, I’m gravitating more to attending concerts. I went to Metallica in Tampa just a while ago and it was freaking awesome

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Ask me after the Clemson game haha

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I'm saying that type of behavior wasn't allowed 40 years ago. Not addressing problems will cause them to snowball. This sort of thing should be noticed and condemned.

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40 years ago you wouldnt have even known if this happened much less addressed it. There have always been assholes, just less cameras and social media

And what exactly have you done to address it?

Are you applying to be a cop? Judge? Politician? Or are you just bitching about something and hoping someone else does something about it?

Complaining about people complaining.

Never gets old.

A man's 30s-40s are the absolute peak, prime of life. By that time, you have a family, have progressed in your career and are making good money, you're still young and healthy. I ran marathons at 45, now that I'm nearing 60, I lift more than cardio (I still do 2 miles/day with a 28lb weighted vest). If you have aches and pains in your 40s, you're a fat disgusting slob and need to get off your arse. Go get your T checked.

It is and isn't a trap. Somethings got better(like technology and cars).


It is not our fault though

Music used to be much better when I was younger
Married couple actally stayed married for more then 10 years
Movies were not out of good ideas which they are now obviously
etc ..

Oh crap....

I have to wonder about that myself.

My 87 year old mom complains a lot, always miserable.

Her mother who died horribly at 92 would only complain when necessary, like a broken hip or uti. (She grew up at a time without any nutritional info available and like a lot of old women didn't drink enough milk as a child. Her cause of death was organ failure as a result of total skeletal collapse just laying still in a hospital bed.)

I take after my grandmother and only complain to medical staff or if I am incapable of getting out of the floor. My mother had no idea How much pain I was in 24/7 for about 5 years until I finally got with a pain care specialist and worked my way up from little pills to a fentanyl patch the size of the palm of my hand (what you get in an ambulance would fit on the pad of the tip of your little finger)

I think people like my mom that complain all the time are focused on what they have lost, can't do anymore, and people like grandma and I instead focus on what we still have and the memories of the of the good times instead.

I mean sure my health is total crap and my life expectancy is about another decade but there are people everywhere in worse shape than me. At least I can still walk and talk, my mind is still intact, I can use the bathroom without aid of any kind. That's better than millions of people worldwide including many locals.