I mean, I'm 61, working at a smallish SaaS company that "just growed" from a startup, having fun. I write code, which is the work I enjoy most, I do architecture and explain to the kids why we're doing what we're doing. My health is fine, but I exercise regularly and eat reasonably healthy.
Re my health, I kinda feel like Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman: "What, me worry?" I worry more about the state of the US than I do about my own health. We're all going to die - I've lived a lot longer than many people. I've outlived Steve Jobs by 5 years at this point. Suck it, Steve! (And Jim Morrison? 34 years. Looooser!)
If you do cardio - even just walking/hiking - and weight training, you're going to be healther than 95% of people, and live longer with better quality of life. It's not that difficult.
As you age, if you're reasonably sane, you start letting go of the idea that you can or should live forever.
> As you age, if you're reasonably sane, you start letting go of the idea that you can or should live forever.
I'm (only?) 44, and I still can't quite make peace with the idea of death. I'm not really afraid of it, but I can't stand the idea that I'm going to miss out on so many cool events in the future.
I want to see us colonize our solar system, maybe learn how to travel to other stars. I want to see what a post-scarcity economy might be like, if we as humans aren't too selfish to distribute wealth fairly. I want to see where medical/biological technology takes us, whether that's human cybernetics, whole-brain uploads, immersive virtual worlds, ... hell, the cures for so many diseases could be just around the corner. Man, so many possibilities, and I'm sure I'll be gone (long gone, even) before any of them becomes reality. And it's just a huge bummer to me that I won't get to experience any of it.
But hey, who knows, maybe we'll destroy ourselves via climate change, nuclear war, genocidal AI, or whatever within my lifetime. Or we'll keep sliding toward a dystopian future where 0.0001% of people live like kings and queens, and the rest of us live in miserable conditions, constantly surveilled, oppressed at every turn.
Re my health, I kinda feel like Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman: "What, me worry?" I worry more about the state of the US than I do about my own health. We're all going to die - I've lived a lot longer than many people. I've outlived Steve Jobs by 5 years at this point. Suck it, Steve! (And Jim Morrison? 34 years. Looooser!)
If you do cardio - even just walking/hiking - and weight training, you're going to be healther than 95% of people, and live longer with better quality of life. It's not that difficult.
As you age, if you're reasonably sane, you start letting go of the idea that you can or should live forever.