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| Has your quality of life improved with age...?! |
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Jenk
Deinonychus
Joined: Jul 02, 2008
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Prof_Pretorius
troubled Soul
Joined: Aug 21, 2006
Age: 50
Posts: 4915
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library
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Improved in many ways.
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Postperson
The Daughter of Indifference
Joined: Jul 10, 2004
Age: 51
Posts: 2904
Location: Uz
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Rainstorm5
Tornado Aficionado
Joined: Feb 20, 2008
Posts: 1103
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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It's gotten worse because of my health problems and the fact that at 41, I can't keep up with the kids half my age out there in the job market anymore.
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Anemone
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 18, 2008
Age: 43
Posts: 790
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Life on welfare. 
I'm hoping things will improve again. |
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tomboy4good
Phoenix
Joined: Apr 15, 2008
Posts: 628
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I voted consistent. However, it's with a twist. My life has been consistently inconsistent since childhood. Life will be good for a little while, & then I get punished.
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Greentea
Bull in China Shop par Excellence!
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
Posts: 2528
Location: Middle East
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| tomboy4good wrote: | | Life will be good for a little while, & then I get punished. |
Life will be passable for a couple months and then I'll get punished with everything going wrong at the same time and my life being back at square one, for years.
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PseudointellectualHorse
Blue Jay
Joined: Nov 02, 2005
Posts: 92
Location: Pasadena, California
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| Absolutely improved. This is partly luck in finding a niche. But childhood was very painful, being different and not knowing why. Being unable to follow any role model. Age has taught me to seek my own path, and not to envy. To tolerate and be good to others, but to keep my home turf for myself alone. Being more able to take mood swings in stride, knowing they're inevitable and not based upon external events. Not having unrealistic expectations. And, yes, to try to move closer to God. These lessons have been learned slowly and painfully, and I value them more than gold. |
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asplanet
Phoenix
Joined: Nov 11, 2007
Posts: 1866
Location: Cyberspace, New Zealand
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: |
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Life for me goes in a circle good times, ok and worse times so hard to say any one!
Age may change how I view the world and wisdom helps me make sense, but my life has never been static or a stereo type "norm" 
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ToughDiamond
Velociraptor
Joined: Sep 16, 2008
Age: 55
Posts: 459
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Things don't shake me up like they used to when I was younger. I guess I've learned a lot of coping strategies. And as retirement from the world of work draws closer every year, the workplace doesn't feel quite so dangerous. The midlife crisis is over.  |
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tygereyes
Raven
Joined: Jul 20, 2007
Posts: 107
Location: Georgia USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:38 am Post subject: mind, not body |
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i feel mature, almost...finally! Not as mature as my peers, but as mature as someone in their 30's.
the body, different story.
My mind is definately better, though...except for forgetfullness and lately pulling words from files has been off some.
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shopaholic
Phoenix
Joined: Aug 01, 2007
Posts: 619
Location: UK
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I'd say degenerated because emotionally & lifestyle-wise I'm a young 20-something, whereas all my peers are married with kids etc, so I don't really fit in anywhere.
Plus I'm stuck in totally the wrong job & can't seem to escape. |
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Loborojo
Phoenix
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
Age: 49
Posts: 931
Location: wherever I lay my head (now in Ecuador)
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consistent I wrote...in that I am getting older and now only like a delayed maturity looking around the corner, telling me...you have nothing to fall back on. I traveled cause I was restless and always wanted to see new things on the horizon, but I have no home, sleep in guesthouses around the world and my few friends I never get to see for long as they live on different continents. I get worried as to what will happen in 10 or 15 years from here.
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