I've had that thought recently, and also the counter-thought.
What is the ultimate use of "old age"?
I understand being productive at any age, but at some point everyone taps out and "relaxes".
Is that the end goal? to just relax away? enjoying doing nothing? Every day is the same? Doesn't that become its own personal hell on earth?
I used to struggle with the feeling that everyday was the same and I remember not being able to handle the idea of the monotony of working for 30 plus years. I truly wasn't interested in doing any of it and started to not care about myself or my future.
Then I hit real hard time and destroyed almost everything in my life.
It completely changed my perspective and the a realization hit me that monotony and all of the simple things in life are actually pretty great.
Maybe a person needs to experience the contrast to truly appreciate this but I live an extremely monotonous life and everyday is the same and I fucking love it now and have been happy as hell living like this for over 10 years.
Life is perspective and Attitude. If you were to lose everything like I did you'd probably come out the other end after recovering feeling the same way I do.
You have a good life
You should probably reread that
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