I know most of the older guys on this site are cool…I’m not particularly talking about you…
I noticed a lot of older guys have the inability to laugh about stupid things or take things way too seriously…I understand that life is serious and that it forces people to have less tolerance for immaturity and ridiculousness, but I still feel that the older guys are just way too serious and sensitive…and it’s probably unnecessary…
Recently, I started to feel myself slipping into this very same mind state, and then I realized being calm is a better way to live life…I mean…I rather be chill as opposed to the opposite…I don’t know whats the purpose of being overly critical and sensitive to everything…
At 37, I find being serious a good foil to busting out something completely ridiculous. A little bit of the furrowed brow and stern look is a great set up on the younger folks.
I notice as I get older, I let a lot more shit just roll off my back. I wouldn’t say I’m more easy going, just getting to the point where unimportant stuff that I usually would have flipped my lid about when I was 20, just seem really insignificant.
I notice that things I really enjoyed doing when I was in my late teens early twenties - aren’t really all that fun anymore.
I also look at kids that are 10+ years younger than I and start muttering to myself shit like “god damned kids these days…”
But I’m a lot nicer to strangers. I smile at people, say please and thank you, hold doors for ladies and old people etc… when I was 20 I was such a little shit to everyone. I don’t know how I didn’t get my ass kicked every time I went out.
I’m pretty sure though that when I’m in my 80s I’m going to be a crabby, crotchety, pervy, old bastard of a man. Just mean and nasty and crazy. Only this time I’ll have an actualy excuse.
[quote]D Public wrote:
I noticed a lot of older guys have the inability to laugh about stupid things or take things way too seriously…I understand that life is serious and that it forces people to have less tolerance for immaturity and ridiculousness, but I still feel that the older guys are just way too serious and sensitive…and it’s probably unnecessary…
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There is that, but a lot of it is that you hear the same lame old shit over and over again. It just ain’t funny the 4th or 5th time around.
It’s just because us young people can’t relate to the accumulation of responsibility that comes when you’re older, so the older folks want to remind you not to be too cocky/naive and maintain respectful distance. Some probably take it too far but that’s how I see it. Of course if you show that you possess some semblance of intelligence they’ll usually loosen up.
I had a job for three years working with a bunch of 40+ year old dudes on a maintenance crew and after a while we all got along great.
I’m pretty sure though that when I’m in my 80s I’m going to be a crabby, crotchety, pervy, old bastard of a man. Just mean and nasty and crazy. Only this time I’ll have an actualy excuse.[/quote]
LOL, it sneaks up on you. I’m 42 and this pretty much describes me now. well except for the being a man part.
Sky…I would say old means you are settled into life/work with usually a wife and possibly kids…I don’t think it’s a particular number…some people reach that stage earlier and some later…
50 cal…That is probably true lol…I guess I’ll have to bring some new stuff to table…
Trav…I agree of course about the responsibility factor…but i still feel people could be more calm about life…
I watched my dad kill himself everyday to provide for my family…I give him the highest level of respect for what he sacrificed for us, but he was still an asshole…When I was a kid, I couldn’t spill water by accident without getting yelled at for 5 minutes…stuff like that happened all the time…That’s just unnecessary…
It depends on the situation. If the immature, stupid shit is taking up time I need to be using for something more productive then yeah its going to piss me off but socially who cares.
I mean I might think you a little retard but it doesn’t really effect me.
I watched my dad kill himself everyday to provide for my family…I give him the highest level of respect for what he sacrificed for us, but he was still an asshole…When I was a kid, I couldn’t spill water by accident without getting yelled at for 5 minutes…stuff like that happened all the time…That’s just unnecessary…
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My question would be do you have kids and a family yet?
And I wouldn’t say it’s always being an asshole, but I definately fall into the catagory of been there done that (even though I’ve got some fresh 21y/o telling me it’s the lates and coolest thing).
It’s not about the accident, I’m sure it was about the fact that this may have been your 8th or 9th accident of the day. And by this time as a parent I can agree you start to get a little pissed off. Also depends on the age, my 10 y/o get in trouble now for shit they wouldn’t have when they were younger.
hah that is true…I remember reading something like that before…
The older you get the less you care about what others think about you and you start to care more about how in line your actions are with your morals and what not…as opposed to when you are younger and your peers’ opinions carry a lot of weight for most…
Being an asshole is not tied to one’s age. A young fella can be an asshole just the same as the old guy.
Being in the army for creeping up on 22 yrs now has taught me not to take life too seriously. Have fun when you can and be serious when you must. Astronaut Walter Schirra said, “A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.”
Another thing that has come to me with age is slowing down for a sec and thinking something through rather than charging blindly. I always use this joke when instructing newer soldiers…The papa bull and the baby bull were on the hill looking down at the herd of cows. The baby bull says, “Let’s run down there and fuck 1 of them cows.” The papa bull says, “Let’s WALK down and fuck 'em all.”
I know most of the older guys on this site are cool…I’m not particularly talking about you…
I noticed a lot of older guys have the inability to laugh about stupid things or take things way too seriously…I understand that life is serious and that it forces people to have less tolerance for immaturity and ridiculousness, but I still feel that the older guys are just way too serious and sensitive…and it’s probably unnecessary…
Recently, I started to feel myself slipping into this very same mind state, and then I realized being calm is a better way to live life…I mean…I rather be chill as opposed to the opposite…I don’t know whats the purpose of being overly critical and sensitive to everything…
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I hate my generation (I’m 55). We supported this system. We sold you younger folks into servitude so we could have ‘free’ dentures or those horseshit little power chairs you see on TV. “I’m on Medicare so my chair was free!” God, I wanna push that woman off a cliff in her slavery-bought chair!
We wanted free everything and stuck you poor schmucks with the bill. We are a generation of rats in human form. Bill Clinton represents us to perfection.
So, a resounding ‘Yes’. We are assholes. A few of us didn’t play along but I always think we might have done more to stop what’s happening. Mea Culpa, mea culpa…
[quote]D Public wrote:
hah that is true…I remember reading something like that before…
The older you get the less you care about what others think about you and you start to care more about how in line your actions are with your morals and what not…as opposed to when you are younger and your peers’ opinions carry a lot of weight for most…
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Not just that. Most people are nowhere near as clever as they all think they are…which means the older you get, it is likely the less tolerance you have for stupid people.
How many times do the lifters here get asked the same stupid questions about what they eat and why…often by the same people…who already asked last week?
I saw one of the guys who works the front desk at my gym overnight eating a pizza. I can only imagine how many people passed by making retarded comments about what he was eating AT A GYM, so I made sure not to mention it at all on my way out.
Chances are, if you just thought of something real clever at the age of 20…it is likely nowhere near as clever or original as you thought it was.
I’m not 35 yet, but I already can’t stand dealing with slow people or those who think they are really funny…for saying the same shit 30 other people have said that same week.
[quote]D Public wrote:
hah that is true…I remember reading something like that before…
The older you get the less you care about what others think about you and you start to care more about how in line your actions are with your morals and what not…as opposed to when you are younger and your peers’ opinions carry a lot of weight for most…
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I saw one of the guys who works the front desk at my gym overnight eating a pizza. I can only imagine how many people passed by making retarded comments about what he was eating AT A GYM, so I made sure not to mention it at all on my way out.
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salutes
could you pass on this information please? because people still don’t seem to fucking get it.
granted i don’t eat pizza at the front desk, but still.
I go to the YMCA to swim and the old people there are fucking miserable and they live to screw with people. They give my two young daughters a hard time, they get confrontational with my wife and they intimidate the hell out of the YMCA staff to the point that these people are refered to as the “geriatric mafia”.
There’s a sign in the locker room that prohibits nude loitering but right under it is a bench where a bunch of naked old men sit and compare whose balls hang over the end of the bench the farthest. Don’t even get me started on the old fuckers who try to run people down in church parking lots and school zones.
[quote]JRT6 wrote:
I go to the YMCA to swim and the old people there are fucking miserable and they live to screw with people. They give my two young daughters a hard time, they get confrontational with my wife and they intimidate the hell out of the YMCA staff to the point that these people are refered to as the “geriatric mafia”.
There’s a sign in the locker room that prohibits nude loitering but right under it is a bench where a bunch of naked old men sit and compare whose balls hang over the end of the bench the farthest. Don’t even get me started on the old fuckers who try to run people down in church parking lots and school zones.
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Are we talking about 60+ year old Senior Citizens?
Not just that. Most people are nowhere near as clever as they all think they are…which means the older you get, it is likely the less tolerance you have for stupid people.
How many times do the lifters here get asked the same stupid questions about what they eat and why…often by the same people…who already asked last week?
I saw one of the guys who works the front desk at my gym overnight eating a pizza. I can only imagine how many people passed by making retarded comments about what he was eating AT A GYM, so I made sure not to mention it at all on my way out.
Chances are, if you just thought of something real clever at the age of 20…it is likely nowhere near as clever or original as you thought it was.
I’m not 35 yet, but I already can’t stand dealing with slow people or those who think they are really funny…for saying the same shit 30 other people have said that same week.[/quote]
yeah…Thats why I don’t post much on here…I assume a lot of you guys have already read it or heard it before…I can’t really offer training advice, so I rarely post…I stay out of training forums for the most part now…
I mean…for all I know…this discussion probably occurred before on here…