These 7 brutal truths about aging will help you get your shit together
Author’s Note: Originally published in 2019
As I along with the people I love get older, I realize a universal truth more and more:
Aging is not for the weak.
From heart bypasses, cancer, depression, and dementia to lower energy, balding, dentures, and chronic pain. Aging is the real deal.
And aging is NOT just hard physically. Starting around age 30, life also gets more complicated, and in many ways, more difficult.
In our 20s, life is simple. We can focus on ourselves, our friends, and our careers. Our health is great. We're naive.
But, then we meet someone special. We can't just think of ourselves anymore. Next, we create a new human being. Now, we have to optimize for multiple people's future at once. Not only that, we get jobs with more and more responsibility while our expenses skyrocket. And, our own health, energy, and cognitive processing speed along with our parents' health starts to gradually (and sometimes rapidly) decline.