I have another question for you all. I am 35. Still wear the same pants I wore back near the end of high school. Still look the same as I did a decade prior. Got a couple grey hairs in my chest fur… And that is it. Everyone told me I would be in pain in my thirties and wouldn’t want to do anything, but I have just much energy as I did when I was a kid. I don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my late twenties.
I go out with several buddies, some with kids, some without. Same deal. They haven't slowed down at all. We have discussed this a few times bar hopping. Brought it up to some old men in their fifties who... Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed they were in their fifties. Forties tops. Blew my mind, the way they drink and party.
My question is… Why is this an American myth? Feminists being resentful of men aging gracefully? The r select being angry at the k select? Endomorphs raging at ectomoporhs and mesomorphs walking through less affected by time? Everyone throughout my life has told me when you hit your thirties you will be in pain after waking up sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. You can't drink as much. Your dick won't be hard. Where does this shit come from?
Are you sure? Have you actually stress tested that? Because my experience is that while I'm still striving to maintain an active lifestyle(or at least taking the same measures to offset my sedentary profession and hobbies), my endurance has started to trend downward as the years roll on. I can no longer knock out as many reps as I used to during my martial arts class, yet I never stopped going aside from that two or three month period during Covid when they literally wouldn't let us. Father Time is undefeated.
The thing about getting older is it's sneaky. You don't wake up one day and you're old, every day you have a little bit less energy and strength and health and that becomes the new normal.
Some days you'll notice things are different and you'll have no idea when it happened. Oh I got a varicose vein there, when did that happen, don't know. You flip a coin and can't hear the ringing anymore, when did that happen, don't know.
At 35 OP is nowhere near what he was at 25 - just hasn't noticed it yet.