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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:11:52 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Work your ass off to get in great shape with a high level of fitness. Do what you have to do to maintain this fitness. Eat mostly natural, unprocessed foods and moderate your carbs. Consume sugary drinks only a few times per year. Moderate your alcohol consumption. Never go into debt for anything beyond a house, car and education. Only spend time around people with positive attitudes (This may be the most important advice). Live way below your means and structure your life so you can leave a shitty job anytime you want. Not many things worse than being trapped in a job you hate. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:26:10 AM EDT
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Must be a late '40s thing. I am 48 and I feel EXACTLY the same way.
Because of family obligations and this Commander & CLown driving the nation into the ground, I will have to continue at my job until I am 56.5yo. I can do that but I wonder just haw many good years of fishing, boating, diving, shooting, fucking and drinking I am going to have left for a retirement. I am in good health now other than watching my cholesterol (which is under control) but I know people just two years older than me who have suffered heart attacks, the onset of Diabetes or other life curbing maladies. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:26:32 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? The joke about "If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself" is a true statement. Get off your ass, stay fit, and stop eating garbage...your body will thank you for it later. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:31:36 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:32:23 AM EDT
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It speeds up as we go. I'm 40. Wife and kids and I are at legoland florida and going to disney also.
My friend and fellow FF who died from job related cancer would always say (when you were awake) "WAKE UP, let's go! !" He did something big every day with his kids. Inspiration he was. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:34:25 AM EDT
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50 years old here.
Kids made the time fly by. Daughter is 22 and will be a Doctor in 2 more years. Son is 16 and the very definition of young, dumb and full of ... He is going to be a welder. Currently he is saving for a Tig welder. But hoping he gets it for Christmas. 
I feel great, except for sore feet in the evening. Progressed from punching assholes to yelling at assholes to just shaking my head and knowing that karma will eventually take care of them. We built our house and shop high up on a hill in woods. Can't see anything man made from the house and it takes 4wd on dry day to get up here. Assures that anyone coming up to the house are friends. Life is good. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:34:52 AM EDT
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I'm 43 in a few days, and that is why I built this 2 years ago:
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:35:22 AM EDT
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I know how you feel, I'll be 29 on Thursday
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:40:13 AM EDT
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I'm 61. It really hits me at Christmas, when the Kids ask me what I would like, and I can't think of a damn thing.
Pretty much got every thing I want in life. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:43:23 AM EDT
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Feel the same way here. Making thing worse is I've spent an unbelievable amount of time dealing with financial hardship over the last 10 years. Medical bills from some complications around my first sons birth, several surgeries and cancer treatment for myself, a real estate deal that was supposed to right us and instead took every last penny we had... Recently my place of business for nearly ten years unexpectedly went tits up, and I cant seem to find a job that will let me pay my bills without having another job. I hear you OP. I feel like I'm running out of time to make anything happen. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:44:01 AM EDT
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It's the QUICKENING.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:47:42 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Learn the power of compound interest and use it to your advantage. Even 100 bucks per month rolling along for 40 years = Mr_Smiley will be smiling. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:49:37 AM EDT
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For me it started getting like that after Dad passed. I was 54 when he passed. We did everything together (hunt, fish, etc) and for the most part his friends (of his age or older) were my friends. Now most all of them are dead or getting there in a hurry. I used to live to hunt and fish but now since everyone I did those things with are gone or had to quit due to health I find myself not really giving a shit if I ever kill another deer and mostly just squirrel hunt now. Oh I still never miss opening day but it's not the same anymore with no old friends left that hunt to share the experience with. I just sorta go through the motions. Go to my stand, sit a while, kill a deer, and tote it home to process it. Meh. I know it's all part of getting older (in my 60s now) but it still sucks to find that stuff that meant a lot to me just ten years ago no longer do. 
On the bright side I find I have more time and money to devote to messing with guns so there's that. 
Your dad and his friends shared a gift with you, camaraderie. Are you going to just let it die with you? You're the old guy now, time to find someone younger to take hunting and fishing with you. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:51:03 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Since so many have already chimed in great advice, I'll just say one thing - Money, it doesn't matter nearly as much as what you think. Money does not buy happiness. Money is not the purpose. The constant focus on money will have negative results in your life. Instead, focus on what matters: family, friends, and experiences. Use your money wisely for those things and don't sweat anything else. Whatever you do, do not let money consume you. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:51:22 AM EDT
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Quality over quantity. Don't buy a house with a woman you aren't married to. Don't have a baby with a woman you aren't married to. If you aren't married and you do have a baby, get a paternity test, no matter how much you "trust" her. Don't marry or trust a woman you wouldn't start a business with. She, whoever she is, has likely banged at least as many men as you have women. Get over it. If "it" whatever "it" is, is being explained to you, and it doesn't make sense upon first explanation, it's because it doesn't make sense. There's either deception or incompetence afoot. Never be talked into feeling guilty. If someone is trying to make you feel guilty, they are trying to control you. There is no "giving" back, because unless you were a trust fund kid, you earned whatever you have. (see "guilt" above). America as it has been communicated to many of us is dead. We are a European Socialist Democracy, whether we want to admit it or not. The Constitution was dead the minute "we" accepted that it was a living document. (i.e.,Even the Devil can quote scripture). Someday, they will come for you, or your heirs. Prepare yourself or them accordingly. Never make fun of someone speaking broken English, because at least they are speaking in a second language. It's never fair. Ever. Grown ups are prepared for this. Pick your battles. Discretion does not mean cowardice. Being judgmental is not only okay, but preferred. You cannot have good judgment without being judgmental. Your kid tells lies sometimes. Just like everybody else. When anticipating consequences in dealing with people, don't anticipate what you would do. Anticipate what they would do. That way you are not blindsided by the actions of amoral shitbags. Etc. Well said. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:52:11 AM EDT
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Time flies when you're having fun.
I couldn't care less if I'm 40-ish. So long as I don't look it, it's all good. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:54:34 AM EDT
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46 here.
My eyes aren't what they use to be but, besides that I don't have any complaints. I do not have the expectation to perform like I was 30 again. Some of you are depressing. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:54:36 AM EDT
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Buy a canoe. Get sunburned. Win. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:57:21 AM EDT
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... precisely why we must live everyday as though it were our last
Look toward the positive in life. Much to be thankful and grateful for |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:58:11 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? I'll tell you what I tell myself constantly... Get your face out from behind a glowing screen. How much time do we all waste on a computer or phone or TV? And tell yourself what you will, but it is wasted; a cheap replacement for the highs and lows experience in the real world with real people. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:58:55 AM EDT
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OP "Life is not a dress rehearsal" so enjoy it. I've found their are two kinds of people in life "participants" and "spectators". I turned 68 last month. Still can climb trees and screw in tree steps and hang the stands...life is good. I still dive (scuba), run, and can draw a bow at 60#..again life is good. Of course it's not as easy when I was in my 40's. A few tweaks to the heart, a few to the back, and need glasses but it sure beats the hell out of being a "spectator". Have fun; it's a one way ticket. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Anymore I am simply amazed with how fast the years are going by, this year especially. No long thread on this one...but I'll just say that at 47 y/o, it feels like I have very little time left with where I'll be blessed with good health and am able to get out and do things with any degree of ease.. OP "Life is not a dress rehearsal" so enjoy it. I've found their are two kinds of people in life "participants" and "spectators". I turned 68 last month. Still can climb trees and screw in tree steps and hang the stands...life is good. I still dive (scuba), run, and can draw a bow at 60#..again life is good. Of course it's not as easy when I was in my 40's. A few tweaks to the heart, a few to the back, and need glasses but it sure beats the hell out of being a "spectator". Have fun; it's a one way ticket. Amen brother...so true. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:59:29 AM EDT
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Don't stick your dick in crazy, you'll spend the rest of your life paying for it. Spend more time with your old man, you never know how much you have left. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Don't stick your dick in crazy, you'll spend the rest of your life paying for it. Spend more time with your old man, you never know how much you have left. True words
I'm 24, I feel old. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:59:39 AM EDT
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I just turned 47 and I'm going in for a total hip replacement next week. Shoulders are fucked too.
Arthritis is a bitch. But I just watched a video of a guy squatting 225 for 12 reps 7 months out from a hip replacement so there's hope! |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:02:38 AM EDT
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I ride dirt bikes with a guy that is 73. I am 34 and look up to that.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:16:33 AM EDT
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Time flies when you're having fun.
I couldn't care less if I'm 40-ish. So long as I don't look it, it's all good. And you don't at all!! The mayo probably has something to do with it. Ugh....the mayo. I eat it everyday, but it's only when I type it out and look at the word that I remember The Incident About Which We Do Not Speak. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:19:36 AM EDT
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I turned 51 yesterday. What's a guy to do?
I need another AR. Maybe a LaRue PredatOBR. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:21:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:22:41 AM EDT
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Anymore I am simply amazed with how fast the years are going by, this year especially. No long thread on this one...but I'll just say that at 47 y/o, it feels like I have very little time left with where I'll be blessed with good health and am able to get out and do things with any degree of ease.. It's math. When you're 10, the year is 1/10th of your life at that point. Now, for you, it's 1/47th. But it only looks so in retrospective. So keep looking foreward. Shit, at 47 my FIL still had two more babies to create, one of them being my wife. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:22:48 AM EDT
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I'm 43 in a few days, and that is why I built this 2 years ago: <a href="http://s1006.photobucket.com/user/thorshammerblow2/media/image2_zpsrsivxiy6.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/thorshammerblow2/image2_zpsrsivxiy6.jpg</a> Yep, I doubled down. '14 Vette ragtop last year and a '15 Challenger Hellcat this year. Just turned 56. I don't have the patience or time to build a beauty like that Cobra though. 
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:25:10 AM EDT
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Our perception of time gets skewed as we get older. It only get worse. My hunch is that our perception of time is relative to how long we've been alive. For instance when your two a year seems like forever because it's half as long as you've been alive. When you're 40 a year is only 1/40th of your life.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:25:28 AM EDT
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i'm 46 and the older i get, the faster the time passes... That is an obvious truth that escapes most... |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:26:12 AM EDT
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I'm 61. It really hits me at Christmas, when the Kids ask me what I would like, and I can't think of a damn thing. Pretty much got every thing I want in life. Tell them you want time with family. In the end it's the only thing that really matters. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:26:47 AM EDT
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"Live like you're going to die tomorrow, plan as if you're going to live forever." |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:30:01 AM EDT
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Don't waste time chasing things you know you'll never catch.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:35:22 AM EDT
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43 here. My only real regret, thus far, is that my parents didn't live long enough to see how their grandkids and I are turning out. I lost them when I was 33 and 35, and I miss them every single day of my life, and I miss the wisdom they would have imparted to my girls. You guys that are fortunate enough to still have them around; take advantage of it. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:44:31 AM EDT
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Some great advice.
Time seems to be going faster because we get into the daily treadmill trap. Like already said, break the routine. Pay attention to things like a great sunrise or sunset. Observe Nature. Also, enjoy life. My wife says (jokingly) that my modded Jeep that I use as a daily driver is my middle-age crisis. And I really enjoy driving that thing with the open top off road out of the beaten path. We work hard. Time to start harvesting some of what we planted. And be mindful of our health. Our bodies now remind us that we cannot eat and drink what we used to.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:45:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Since so many have already chimed in great advice, I'll just say one thing - Money, it doesn't matter nearly as much as what you think. Money does not buy happiness. Money is not the purpose. The constant focus on money will have negative results in your life. Instead, focus on what matters: family, friends, and experiences. Use your money wisely for those things and don't sweat anything else. Whatever you do, do not let money consume you. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Since so many have already chimed in great advice, I'll just say one thing - Money, it doesn't matter nearly as much as what you think. Money does not buy happiness. Money is not the purpose. The constant focus on money will have negative results in your life. Instead, focus on what matters: family, friends, and experiences. Use your money wisely for those things and don't sweat anything else. Whatever you do, do not let money consume you. I watched my father sacrifice his life to the altar of the almighty dollar, and he died a broken man at 50. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:52:13 AM EDT
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Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? yeah. get off the internet as much as possible. while this is a great place and filled with some great people it,is in reality a time consuming black hole. when you die,no one cares that you(we) were popular on the internet or always had a snappy comeback on line... i was 35 when i first got on line,and found arfcom. I am 45 now as much as i love this place,i need to walk away from it and do something real..... |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 9:54:25 AM EDT
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Welcome to being past 45. For very few people, that is past the halfway point. I can notice how my perspective has changed as well.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:02:43 AM EDT
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I ride dirt bikes with a guy that is 73. I am 34 and look up to that. I've got a cycling friend that rode his bike across the country at 76. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:04:10 AM EDT
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Whatever your goals, start now. I've put off doing many things because it would "take too long". The time passed anyways.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:04:55 AM EDT
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"I'm older than I've ever been and now I'm even older, and now I'm even older, and now I'm older still!"
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:13:26 AM EDT
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53 next Monday I do not agree...
Not a bash on ya OP but I've never looked at life in a way that makes me think....it's slipping away... I'm a busy guy, married 26+ years, children 19/17, 87 hobbies, and a great career. Did I mention hobbies? I tear into things like that retarded kid playing the drums...motorcycles, hiking, fishing, gardening...and most recently photography. Read a book, took a class, then read the book again. Fun stuff but you better have money (bastards warned me over at the photog forum )...
I digress... Enjoy the day and do what you love... Peace Bothers 
And no, I'm not taking advantage of the new pot laws o Oregun.... |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:16:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yolo. Has some limited accuracy to it. Agreed... Posting from Copenhagen just to mix things up!  |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:18:51 AM EDT
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I am 55 and 47 was my last good year.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:19:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Contribute to your 401k or what ever they offer and start a Roth IRA... Like yesterday! |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:22:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Learn the power of compound interest and use it to your advantage. Even 100 bucks per month rolling along for 40 years = Mr_Smiley will be smiling. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Since all you old dudes are in here. Any advice for a 23yr old? Learn the power of compound interest and use it to your advantage. Even 100 bucks per month rolling along for 40 years = Mr_Smiley will be smiling. This-my grandmother passed away last month at 96 and my grandfather two years ago at 97; they were married for 72 years and socked away enough for 24/7 in home care for my grandfather after a stroke and several more years for my grandmother's progressive Alzheimer's. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:24:37 AM EDT
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And you don't at all!! The mayo probably has something to do with it. Ugh....the mayo. I eat it everyday, but it's only when I type it out and look at the word that I remember The Incident About Which We Do Not Speak. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Time flies when you're having fun.
I couldn't care less if I'm 40-ish. So long as I don't look it, it's all good. And you don't at all!! The mayo probably has something to do with it. Ugh....the mayo. I eat it everyday, but it's only when I type it out and look at the word that I remember The Incident About Which We Do Not Speak. LOL 
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:25:23 AM EDT
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Yup.... The past few years I've made it a point to rid my life of the slackers the do nothing's, and those with the party mentality. I've also gotten myself into the best shape of my life..now I need to get to work on my bucket list. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yolo. Has some limited accuracy to it. Yup.... The past few years I've made it a point to rid my life of the slackers the do nothing's, and those with the party mentality. I've also gotten myself into the best shape of my life..now I need to get to work on my bucket list. I have my bucket list covered. There are only one or two super models left that haven't tickled my jimmies. I hope to never be too old and stuck in the mud to appreciate a good, spontaneous party. I never put anything off for retirement or any of that bullshit. The YOLO or 'live for the moment' thing doesn't need to be attacked blindly, just do things now, when you can appreciate them pain free and with good mobility. You don't want to tour the world with a mean old man attitude while sporting a walker with tennis balls on the legs.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:26:54 AM EDT
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I’m 38 in the thick of it with a wife and two kids. I’m watching, still learning, trying not to fuck it up.
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