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Your biggest fear getting older?

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    #32
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,729 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Probably the biggest concern (not sure I'd call it fear) I'd have is contracting a disease or having an accident that resulted in my being unable to look after myself or leading to me being a burden on my loved ones. If that happened I'd rather a quick death TBH

    Like Galwayguy35 above I'm fast approaching 40 and have started to realise that I'm almost two-thirds through my working life and still have a long way to go if I plan to be able to enjoy my retirement and provide for myself/family in the way I want to.

    I also am not one for doctors, check-ups etc but despite that I rarely get more than a cold twice a year - something else that'll probably change.

    Oh well!


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    #33
    Lardy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 981 ✭✭✭Lardy


    Having to be shown how to use the latest bit of technology and not having a clue what the youth is on about. "I'n my day, all I had was an iPad, iPhone..."
    I still play my Sega Master System that I got in 1987, reminds me of being a kid. :)


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    #34
    BobTheNihilist
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    Man I'm a catalogue of fears.

    I hope I don't get terminal cancer or anything. I quit smoking and am quite fit now but still theres a risk even if you quit the fags.

    I am also not working and hope I get a job soon as the job hunt is depressing. Min you I go to the gym a lot as Ive no work.

    Also, Im in an LTR and I suppose assume I''ll be fucking railroaded into having kids at some stage. Because women are hellishly competitive.
    I dont really want to because I suffer from mental health issues ie have attempted suicide etc in the past and am in no way a provider or role model. Cant even get a job ffs. Loser.


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    #35
    Sauve
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    BobTheNihilist wrote: »
    Also, Im in an LTR and I suppose assume I''ll be fucking railroaded into having kids at some stage. Because women are hellishly competitive.
    I dont really want to because I suffer from mental health issues ie have attempted suicide etc in the past and am in no way a provider or role model. Cant even get a job ffs. Loser.

    mod
    Easy on the generalisations there Bob, women aren't all the same.


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    #36
    ancapailldorcha
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    BobTheNihilist wrote: »
    Man I'm a catalogue of fears.

    I hope I don't get terminal cancer or anything. I quit smoking and am quite fit now but still theres a risk even if you quit the fags.

    I am also not working and hope I get a job soon as the job hunt is depressing. Min you I go to the gym a lot as Ive no work.

    Also, Im in an LTR and I suppose assume I''ll be fucking railroaded into having kids at some stage. Because women are hellishly competitive.
    I dont really want to because I suffer from mental health issues ie have attempted suicide etc in the past and am in no way a provider or role model. Cant even get a job ffs. Loser.

    You're being way too hard on yourself. From my limited experience, yeah, your risk of getting cancer is a bit higher than the average non-smoker but still miles below smokers and exercise will cut that probability further.
    I've a degree and a masters and it took me years to get a decent job after I got made redundant ages ago. If companies here weren't so fond of using temps, I'd have had to come home.
    Having always been single, I can't comment on the end of your post beyond saying that your partner's desire for children isn't a good enough reason to have them unless you feel the same way. I don't know if you've ever been to counselling but I think that might help you.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #37
    banquo
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    Being in my late 20s, mostly financial and family. We're a tiny family, never had a close death. Dreading it.

    Oh, and my dog dying at some stage.


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