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RE: Health is wealth unless impossible

in Self Improvement2 years ago

That is why youth was/is so much fun, or used to be. Young and dumb out does old and knowledgeable a lot. Back then there was no real fear for a lot of people, now there are so many videos about the stupid things we did as kids and young adults that it seems a lot of them today just do not want to go out and have physical/dangerous/might get hurt fun.

I often wonder how many kids are climbing up on the roof and jumping off with a sheet as a parachute. Dragging a tricycle up to the top of a slide to see how far they would fly off the slide. Fun, for me it was, exciting for me it was, dangerous, well what's a few stitches in the chin, I survived, and was able to talk about it.

As a young adult things are kind of forgiven easily, as an older person doing the things a twenty something would do are kind of frowned upon by society and more harshly punished by society, and more punished by our bodies.

For me "MORTALITY" kicked in around 38, when I started being more careful and more choosy about my activities.

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Yeah, I definitely noticed a big drop off on my reaction times in my mid-30s which makes it a lot harder to trust yourself not to get hurt... and the injuries take so much longer to heal.

It's such a different world now... we weren't allowed inside until dinner time. I have no idea how many hours I spent just doing stupid things in our backyard... but I guess the other side of that is I probably wasn't learning at the same incredible rate as kids with an iPad now.

I think there is some hope for the generation of kids from today's kids, they had parents that saw one extreme, and they had the other extreme, I wonder if it will balance out soon. Fun and learning.