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.
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.
Things like arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are life changing, probably more common than you think, and probably affecting younger people than you think.
In the context of the message you were replying to you were definitely downplaying the proportion of people’s physical problems that are not in their control. The fact you did a slippery slimy acknowledgment that uncontrollable problems exist at all doesn’t absolve you of that.
I’m already seeing this and regretting this in my 40s… relatively young, but a lot of little problems that my peers brush away as being inevitable, i know i could likely have avoided if i was more active in my youth.
And all thesr little issues pile up over years until people throw up their hands and say “its just getting old, nothing i can do!!”
Its all about probability. Nothing in guaranteed. But i could probably avoid a lot of issues if i was more aware and active in my youth…
I’m super active now, and i aspire to be like an 82 year old man i met who walks 20km every day
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.
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.
Things like arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are life changing, probably more common than you think, and probably affecting younger people than you think.
Wat? The first sentence was an acknowledgement of illness and injury. I’m not discounting those realities at all.
In the context of the message you were replying to you were definitely downplaying the proportion of people’s physical problems that are not in their control. The fact you did a slippery slimy acknowledgment that uncontrollable problems exist at all doesn’t absolve you of that.
“slippery slimy” wow, ok.
I’m already seeing this and regretting this in my 40s… relatively young, but a lot of little problems that my peers brush away as being inevitable, i know i could likely have avoided if i was more active in my youth.
And all thesr little issues pile up over years until people throw up their hands and say “its just getting old, nothing i can do!!”
Its all about probability. Nothing in guaranteed. But i could probably avoid a lot of issues if i was more aware and active in my youth…
I’m super active now, and i aspire to be like an 82 year old man i met who walks 20km every day
What a hybris.