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Here's what I know. (I turn 50 this coming year)

About mid 40s, you will start to learn that naps are AMAZING. You will get tired and worn out far more freqvently, and your ability to overclock your body through caffeine and other stimulants will fade. Your body will start rejecting foods that were always your favorites about 47 with no explanation (your body can no longer process the toxins and excesses like it once could). You will start having health reprocussions from your life's choices soon afterwards. These are tolerable and manageable once you figure out what they are, but it will be terrifying in the interim. You will need to make life changes that will be very scary at first, but will become normal.

You will have regrets over what you can no longer do that you thought you'd always have time for. Your mind and eyes will get a little sluggish..., nothing major, but you will be confused by new things and it will take a lot more effort to try to learn new things.

It will be in your best interest to remember that your mental state does not actually age at the same rate as your body, and you can remain a 10-yr old in your mind for as long as you want/need, but you will have to accept that your body is aging. It is not the end of the world, but while you are still dealing with the changes, it will be difficult.

You are not going to die in your sleep, but those thoughts will echo in your thoughts as you try to sleep and are scared about why your heart is sounding... off. It takes time to get used to the changes. But, this is what happens... and it happens to everyone.

Change is scary... but it is inevitable. Learning early that change is a constant will help. Accepting that takes time. Again, EVERYONE goes through this, at that age.

You have time. ENJOY that time. Enjoy your youth while it's there. 30 is still youth to the 50-yr old. Your earlier years, no matter the age, will always be your "youth" that you will long for, in your older years.

ENJOY your age. Live while you are fully able to. Your body can still recover from bad decisions.

There will be time to be old, later.

Keep your mind as that of a 10-yr old. It will keep your mind maleable. Old-age really only sets in when you can no longer adapt to the changes that the world will keep tossing at you. As long as you are mentally young, you will never be an old fart that says the hell with the world and has no interest in it being there for the younger kids that WILL be growing up in it. Don't EVER be the person that stops new kids from growing up safe, sane, and happy. Don't EVER take the prospects of hope for the world away from them.

You will exist after the concept of immortality of youth fades. As long as you remember that the world will outlive you, and to keep it existing for the coming generations... then you've lived a good life.

So, enjoy it while you can. Live all you can, while you can, before your body gets old... and once it does, keep living, just to spite getting older.

That is what I know.

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