What part of getting older did noone warn you about?

My spirit and mind isn't on the same page as my physical abilities anymore...lol! Oh shootfire... but I'm learning my limitations these days.
The old gray mare ..just ain't what she use to be! ❤✌

The importance of secrecy is something I just had an epiphany about recently.

If a company or the government tells you to not talk about something outside of work, dont talk about it outside of work.

You might think that in a job interview you can use some old crap you made from before and nobody will find out and that is true when you are EARLY in your career.

But as you grow older and continue to work with non disclosure agreements of secret clearance type stuff, the amount of little tid bits of information you may have let go here or there MAY come back to get you just because over the course of a 20 to 30 year career stuff you designed or made will prompt people to ask WHO made it and eventually the finger will come to you. Not only that, your connections will be questioned if there is ever an investigation of a leak and then the finger will also come to you. The worst case scenario of all that could happen is that a country like Iran or China gets a hold of your shit and then you just go to prison.

Even if you think it is just a tiny detail, dont let 20 to 30 years of tiny details here and there all over the country or world eventually point back to you.

I dont want to elaborate on why I know this. Lets just say I have great intuitive foresight on things that can happen.

loss of health
loss of children
part d medicare rules
lack of help available for people needing additional care
that retirement isn't about doing what you love

The pain of losing loved ones, be it to death or dementia/alzheimer

My dads getting sadder every year bc I won't live as long as them. Which I get. I'm hecking amazing!

Watching my once healthy and strong husband develop multiple health issues all at once, please pray for him..

Caring for elderly parents. It hits us out of the blue just as we are retiring or trying to save for retirement. I don't remember anyone warning my generation about this. I was stuck with caring for both parents alone.

Losing your brainpower. I blank out on words and numbers and names sooooo much easier than I did when young. ☹

The pain.
There's always a level daily pain that seems to accompany me.

I guess just that when we get older we really miss the "good ol days".

Hair not growing where or how it's supposed to

I wouldn't have cared if they did.

How quick it happens.🤣

Growing old is not how I imagined it would be. It’s much worse.

That you will no longer give a fuck about what anyone thinks

Increase in seizure medication leading to rapid hair thinning.

Waking up a bit stiff, not that kinda stiff LOL

How ageist society is

Farkin ear n nose hair 🤬

Aches. Aches everywhere.

Pubes too

That your life isn't a plan that just works out. Everything changes: people, legislation, inflation, social dynamics, society. It never really gets 'easy' at any point .

Chin hairs

That people younger than you get extremely rude, and act as if you're irrelevant