As a middle aged man, playing soccer. I fell back into it just before I hit 30 and have made a boatload of interesting friends from all walks of life in the decade since. It’s also a lovely mental yoga, for an hour several times a week I don’t think about work, politics, life of anything, just keeping a dumb ball out of my dumb net and helping others put it in the bad guys’ net. Physically, to keep playing I’ve had to stay in shape, which is a lot easier when it’s directly related to a fun hobby instead of a vague concept of being healthy.
We’ve been at it so long that a couple teammates who met playing have just had their first kid.
As a middle aged man, playing soccer. I fell back into it just before I hit 30 and have made a boatload of interesting friends from all walks of life in the decade since. It’s also a lovely mental yoga, for an hour several times a week I don’t think about work, politics, life of anything, just keeping a dumb ball out of my dumb net and helping others put it in the bad guys’ net. Physically, to keep playing I’ve had to stay in shape, which is a lot easier when it’s directly related to a fun hobby instead of a vague concept of being healthy.
We’ve been at it so long that a couple teammates who met playing have just had their first kid.