Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by marto1 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:32AM (#30231203)

Put things in perspective. There are people in their 50s that still go to bars and continue until their 70s probably, stopping only because of physical inability. Anyway, that shouldn't be used as a measure is what I'm trying to say.

Remember that anything that happens to you has happened to thousands and thousands of men in the past so don't put so much pressure on living.

Also, try to see yourself more as an artist painting a picture rather than someone that is struggling through life. Hope that helps.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by noduerme on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:02AM (#30231759)

Also, WTF is wrong with bars? Bars are great.

I can't remember what book it was, maybe something by Douglas Coupland (?) He talks about how there was probably some guy just like him in 200 AD, in the Roman Empire, going through exactly what he's going through now. Forgotten to history, all his thoughts. And he's just that guy all over again.

Compared to beating the shit out of yourself for not being Mohammed or Ghengis Khan, Bars are just fine.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by david12345 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:08AM (#30232167)

The meditations by Marcus Aurelius?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by noduerme on Saturday February 12, 2022 @06:46AM (#30312069)

Was Marcus Aurelius the first guy to make the observation that he was probably a clone of someone born 2000 years earlier?

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