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What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?

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At 30 you reach the peak.
At 40 you start to have small health problems that don't go away and are mostly annoyance.
At 50 you seek help because it's more than annoyance. You get your first permanent medication.
At 60 it's somewhat limiting and for the first time causing Intermediate pain.
At 70 it's debilitating and pain is a familiar companion. You might have your first seizures.
At 80 if it hasn't killed you yet, it soon will. You are probably an invalid or close to it.
At 90 if you are still hanging on, you are waiting for death and welcoming it.
That's pretty much it, ±10 years.
- If you spend most of your teenage and adult years over the weight of 220 pounds you can move your timetable ahead 10 - 15 years. Permanent medication at 30 or 40, debilitating pain especially in the knees at 45, heart problems anytime from 40-60, welcoming death at 80,
- Then people call me insane for not wanting to make it past 40
  
  That is what I "always" thought, motorcycling will get me and I wouldn't want to live without being able to ride ... but then it happens, you don't and you get to live with what you never though you would be. ...
  Some friend came along today and had Frank Sinatra "my way" playing for a ring, immediately I searched the tube and found Sid Vicious' "my way" and played it back ... he never got old. I guess they can take our lives away but we get to keep the mind young if we want... and look back to see if we are happy with choices, even the worst mistakes.
  The weirdest feeling is that the older you get the more you feel time is accelerating ... you get older faster and faster after a certain age.
  
  Yeah. It feels like the brain processes memories and their durations in relation to experienced total. When you are 5, one year is 20% of your life and feel like eternity. When you are 50 it's 2% of your life and goes by pretty quick.
- bleak

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