I am in my early 40s. For the last year or so I have started thinking how my life will as I aged and whether i will have enough for retirement and etc.
I never really thought about the long term future before even in my late 30s but the future is now creeping up.
I have always had people around me from family to heaps of friends to house mates but now it is just my kid and I in our home. The kid will grow up and I will be alone for once in my life which is somewhat a scary though.
My question is when did the future finally hit you and how are you feeling about it or how did you cope?
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I turn 39 in about a week and I certainly don’t feel like my life is over or even close to it. I’m probably not even at the halfway point yet.
Ahh bout 12, just keep keeping on until you can’t keep on any more, do what you do until you don’t, do as many things with the kid as you can too keep their mind alive and excited for life
A man without vision is closest to death. Find your vision and make it your purpose.
Nearly over? You could have another 40+ years ahead of you.
I’m 32, I started to feel myself spiraling downwards some 3-4 years ago when I started getting that sickness, that other little pain, that other other little syndrome, etc.
When depression took over.
Honestly? When I turned 20. Which I get is totally ridiculous, and that’s why I get therapy.
>The kid will grow up and I will be alone for once in my life which is somewhat a scary though.
You can prevent this. Get out there, meet new people any way you can.
Harry was pitiful, unemployed, and close to bankruptcy when he was 44 in 1922, 23 years later and he was the 33rd US president.
Stan Lee was 39 when he and Kirby created the fantastic four comics.
Martha Stewart was in her 40s before she became a common household name.
Samuel MotherFucking L Jackson was
39 when he first starred in Coming to America.
Post 40 isn’t the “coming to the end of my life” stage, Forbes and Buisness Insider both agree rhat people in their 40s and 50s are more likely to make it big, so many businesses and startups are created by people later in life that go on to be successful, Many only focus on the younger start-ups just because Bezos was 30 when he created Amazon and and Zuckerberg was 20 when he launched Facebook (for examples).
You’re still half way to start your presidential career!
It’s been over since 2018.
Everything after that has been just an encore. A reeeeaaally long encore and I hate how long it drags on.
The way life is these days I hope it’s almost over.
Just remember, you were born *last century*.
After finishing high school. It’s been a downward spiral ever since
You’re not dead…probably not close to it. Find something to work on and work on it.
My grandfather lived until 87…he didn’t stop working on stuff until he had a stroke at 85…Even after that he still got around okay until lung cancer got him.
I turn 41 in a week. I have a ton of stuff I am working on…I am even leading our month long step competition at work and just set a personal record of 20 miles in one day.
There’s always something to make you feel alive…just go find it. I would be looking forward to the freedom once your kid is out of the house.
I’m in my late 50’s. Don’t care. Still don’t feel this way.
At age 23
Age 6 is my first memory of thinking “I’m tired of this, I am not worthy of living, I’d rather just die”.
I mean I fully expected to not make it to 24. but here I am.
still not sure what to do lmao
I’m close to your age, and I had a similar sense of anxiety/insecurity. But I figured that our generation will likely see a more lassez faire social liberalism and the unbuckling of ye olde belt of religion.
So pragmatic retirement solutions like euthanasia, especially as climate catastrophe takes a robust grip, will become legal and possibly promoted as a viable post-productivity solution.
So I’m not that bothered about retirement, because there will be alternatives to growing old in relative poverty.