Are there things that you will bring into your life as the days grow shorter?

 

My father dieted all of his life until he reached 75 then started eating desserts. I have met people who had stopped smoking but said they would 

start again when they reached 80...

 

Are there indulgences you have added or will add back into your life at a certain age? 

2 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Are there indulgences you have added or will add back into your life at a certain age? 

When I was 30, I said "fun friends" nine years younger than me was WRONG!!!! Bad boy, bad boy!!!!  

 

Now 30 years younger (yes there are older than 21 you sickos!!!!!!!!!!!!) is fine like deserts every now and then.

 

Took me 100000 years to learn how bad sugar was, and I was always in-shape.  Took another 10000 years to learn that avoiding fried food and lots of carbs is easier than I thought.

 

but Pattaya calls my friend!!!!!   I must sleep before my 10 pm to 5 am indulgences begin!!!!!! 

27 minutes ago, BananaStrong said:

When I was 30, I said "fun friends" nine years younger than me was WRONG!!!! Bad boy, bad boy!!!!  

 

Now 30 years younger (yes there are older than 21 you sickos!!!!!!!!!!!!) is fine like deserts every now and then.

 

Took me 100000 years to learn how bad sugar was, and I was always in-shape.  Took another 10000 years to learn that avoiding fried food and lots of carbs is easier than I thought.

 

but Pattaya calls my friend!!!!!   I must sleep before my 10 pm to 5 am indulgences begin!!!!!! 

You are what you eat!!!???

43 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Are there indulgences you have added or will add back into your life at a certain age? 

I never stopped with any indulgences.

 

It's time again to publish my favorite quote from Jack Nightingale in Stephen Leather’s novel Nightmare:

Nightingale blew smoke up at the sky. ‘Everybody dies,’ he said. ‘Life is a zero sum game. The best you can do is to enjoy yourself as you go along.’
‘But smoking shortens your life.’
‘Maybe. But it only takes the years from the end of your life. Not the beginning or the middle.’
Jenny looked at him, confused. ‘I have absolutely no idea what you mean.’
Nightingale took another drag on his cigarette before continuing. ‘Say I live until I’m seventy-five without smoking. And say I die at seventy if I do smoke. I lose five years. But really, Jenny, what am I going to be doing during those five years? Sitting in a bedsit somewhere watching the football, assuming I’ve enough of a pension to be able to afford Sky Sport?

 

Yep, as above why would I deny indulgences when I could enjoy them thought my life. Like the guy who waits for retirement then dies the day before. Enjoy life while you can folks! 

Maybe cocaine in my 70s?

I wore a nappy as a kiddie......methinks I might need again....

1 hour ago, mikebike said:

Like the guy who waits for retirement then dies the day before. Enjoy life while you can folks! 

one summer job before university was at a bank and the vice president was a friend of the family. He liked when I would come chat w/him during the day. He had a model of a Winnebago on his desk and he planned to retire and travel the USA.. The year he was scheduled to retire he died of a heart attack... 

6 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

one summer job before university was at a bank and the vice president was a friend of the family. He liked when I would come chat w/him during the day. He had a model of a Winnebago on his desk and he planned to retire and travel the USA.. The year he was scheduled to retire he died of a heart attack... 

So at least he dreamed for years about his trip - that's half of it. 

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

So at least he dreamed for years about his trip - that's half of it. 

Yes, a good dream in the days of Steinbeck writing Travels w/Charlie... and yet, somehow, I always felt that the dream overwhelmed him and the reality was frightening after a lifetime behind a desk in an office... 

The converse. I cut out more from my diet and exercise more as I get older.

Same as above.

 

I've been a pothead straight thru since age 13.

 

And so I remain.

1 minute ago, LaosLover said:

Same as above.

 

I've been a pothead straight thru since age 13.

 

And so I remain.

Are we brothers from another mother? ????

Just now, mikebike said:

Are we brothers from another mother? ????

I guess I have added back in Nepalese Temple Ball hash -which I can now have delivered to my front door, for a quarter of American mediocre hash prices.

 

I've only had real temple ball hash adjacent to Himalayan temples -back in the Lonely Planet days, circa 2002. The Chiang Mai origin stuff is in that ballpark too.

2 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

I guess I have added back in Nepalese Temple Ball hash -which I can now have delivered to my front door, for a quarter of American mediocre hash prices.

 

I've only had real temple ball hash adjacent to Himalayan temples -back in the Lonely Planet days, circa 2002. The Chiang Mai origin stuff is in that ballpark too.

Not sure how old you are, but I had opium laced temple balls in Canada in the 70s...

I don't want to derail this noble thread into drooling, slobbering pot reminiscing (I'm 70).

 

I also ordered up some Indian charas-hash, that smelled like I remember.  

 

To get back to topic, in old age, I am ready to bliss out with the body-high that only hash can give. So nice to sink into after the personal trainer session.

 

On a Bhutan tour, I saw huge Ganga plants by the side of the road. I tipped my driver. He phoned ahead. We stopped at a temple.

 

A temple-originating temple ball is drugs at the Beat-poet level.  

On 2/25/2023 at 4:18 PM, 1FinickyOne said:

Are there indulgences you have added or will add back into your life at a certain age? 

No, I have sufficient indulgences, am happy with my life as is, and wish to prolong the portion of my life I spend w/o having to deal with docs, meds, hospitals, surgeries, bills, and debilitating chronic diseases--which our Life Coaches always carefully ignore, with the usual list of excuses and rationalizations, except in the Health forum. Already, one diabetic poster ain't talking about the fun of taking insulin meds. I'd prefer to postpone, if possible, suffering the usual diseases of chronic morbidity to a much shorter period coming much later in my life.

 

The touted ANF Longevity Science goal, universally applauded within the peanut gallery, of a short but happy life ending with a smile during a bonk doesn't seem often achieved, come down to it. One recent lead Researcher smugly advising bug**r the diet disappeared after relating new ailments; another, advising do nothing had to return to his home country for treatment, and with doubtful results. All would have been preventable. As Mark Baker says memorably in Gang Fit (Part 2):

 

. . . make sure you keep healthy, because health is your supreme asset. If you’re ill your life is f**ked. Most people don’t become ill for no reason; it’s the consequence of being a w.a.nker, not caring about their physical condition or what they eat. Your life is f**ked anyway because you’re going to die; but don’t accelerate the d**n process! Leave that to the morons who blame their genetics or hormones for their illnesses. Keep strong, build muscle, face physical tests and challenges.

 

In fact, I'm seeing generally poor results among all my "indulgent," or lazy, friends who haven't already died young. They probably will soon, mentally debilitated and suffering. Not hearing from them any self-congratulations like "sure glad I ate all that ice cream, well worth these long years of illness" or "sure enjoyed them unfiltered Camels and just sittin' in the recliner." All bravado gone. Hmm.

 

'Scuse me, it's noon, will take a walk on the beach now and check out all them Russian hotties. Sun, steak and steel, as P. D. Mangan says. And sex, my Thai gf adds. So cute.

I always said when I get older, I would start taking the drugs I tested and used in very limited times as younger, but the older I get, the more I appreciate life as it is, and even drink less, at least less intoxicated by it. 

 

I do not see anything I would like to do more of, except sex, but that would be hard to keep up. 

 

 

I am keeping my doctors in the UK busy with all my minor ailments that I've acquired since leaving the UK some 21 years ago.

 

"So how long have you had this chesty cough?"

"Er... for about 23 years...!"

 

"How long have you had this ED problem?"

"Er, for about 40 years...!"

 

 

On 2/25/2023 at 11:28 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Maybe cocaine in my 70s?

Go out like a candle in the wind? With a gentle blow ????

 

 

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

In fact, I'm seeing generally poor results among all my "indulgent," or lazy, friends who haven't already died young.

I should have been more specific, my indulgences are broccoli and Brussel Sprouts - quite expensive those sprouts..

 

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

will take a walk on the beach now and check out all them Russian hotties.

A bit pigment challenged, but as you like... 

1 hour ago, 1FinickyOne said:

A bit pigment challenged, but as you like... 

But a lot more exposure. Actually they're working hard on getting suntans. Good poses on those beach mats, too. The winner: perfect body, in a thong, with a deep tan set off by platinum hair for an outstanding contrast. Fine visuals made even better on days when she shows up.????

4 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

 

In fact, I'm seeing generally poor results among all my "indulgent," or lazy, friends who haven't already died young. They probably will soon, mentally debilitated and suffering. Not hearing from them any self-congratulations like "sure glad I ate all that ice cream, well worth these long years of illness" or "sure enjoyed them unfiltered Camels and just sittin' in the recliner." All bravado gone. Hmm.

 

I like ice cream. Hits the spot.

1 minute ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I like ice cream. Hits the spot.

Eat more o' that, man.

8 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I like ice cream. Hits the spot.

Perfectly designed to hit the spot, best to get off it though, i have it every few weeks

Just now, scubascuba3 said:

Perfectly designed to hit the spot, best to get off it though, i have it every few weeks

I have a spoon a day normally. Probably is a little much but I think part of heart health is 90 per cent healthy 10 per cent fun. Lots of exercise where you push your boundaries a bit helps. 

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

The winner: perfect body, in a thong, with a deep tan set off by platinum hair for an outstanding contrast.

Ok. A true connoisseur... 

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Perfectly designed to hit the spot, best to get off it though, i have it every few weeks

I have it every few days. ????

3 hours ago, BigStar said:

But a lot more exposure. Actually they're working hard on getting suntans. Good poses on those beach mats, too. The winner: perfect body, in a thong, with a deep tan set off by platinum hair for an outstanding contrast. Fine visuals made even better on days when she shows up.????

33 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

"A bit pigment challenged"???? We done with the silliness?