The whole concept of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you’d wish we’d be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?
Yeah, that hits hard. What sucks is that sometimes, you don’t know for certain if you’re experiencing the best of things. But once it passes you, give it 1 - 5 years, you’ll know it.
When you hit a certain age, you’ll wake up with a new pain and that will be your new normal. Then, your life will be nothing but physical and emotional pain. You’ll just have more of a threshold.
“Nothing but emotional pain”… It seems to me like you’re generalising a personal experience.
Sounds like you had a nice childhood and don’t like getting older?
For those of us who had bad childhoods, getting older is liberating and joyful. My life gets better and better every year and the worst years of my life were my youth.
Yup. Restarted a sport way later in life when I barely gave it a chance in my youth and wishing I did. When I get invited it takes 12x as long to heal too.