• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    13 days ago

    To watch your body deteriorate more and more, and your brain as well. It makes life harder, little by little, every day.

    Old people don’t do so many things anymore because they just can’t, because it gets too hard.

    Not doing things anymore that you have always done, that is one definition of dying (some start it very soon in their life). In the end you don’t do anything anymore.

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      13 days ago

      Unforeseeable circumstances like injury or illness aside, much of the bodily degredation people succumb to is voluntary. Our bodies are very much “use it or lose it” and if you’re sedentary and disregard the importance of diet, you’ll have a bad time.

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        12 days ago

        Someone on Lemmy told me your body will hurt all the time in your 30’s. On the subject, old people IRL were all like WTF, no. I’m guessing the cohort here is pretty sedentary.