Is it true that the older you get, the less fucks you give?

My mom is 45. It's not that old really, but she claims that the older she's getting, the less fucks she gives about everything, and becomes calmer mentally.

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  • DADNSCAL

    Very true. I’ll be 71 on Thursday, and for most things, it’s “whatever “. There just isn’t time or energy to waste on petty crap.

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    • SkullsNRoses

      A premature happy birthday to you!

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      • DADNSCAL

        Thanks!

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    • Curiouskitten444

      Happy birthday 😊

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    • olderdude-xx

      Agreed.

      The key question to ask is: Is this issue going to have a noticeable impact on my life a week, a month, a year, 5 years, or 10 years from now.

      Then just focus your energies on the issues that are going to affect your future significantly. The rest is just noise and distractions.

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  • Pilum

    In a way. I guess you start to recognize and care less about the trivial things but more about the important ones.

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    • SwickDinging

      I was going to say this. I think you learn what matters in life, and you stop wasting energy on the things that don't matter.

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  • SudoHalt

    Totally true. As a 23 year old I give way less crap about things than I did 5 years ago. I can't imagine what will happen in 10 years from now (if I will be alive by then).

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  • GuvnorsOtherWoman

    True, but even in my youth I never gave a fuck!

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  • Boojum

    I'm about twenty years older than your mother.In a sense, I agree with her; I've learned to not to sweat the small shit, accept that I'll screw up, be satisfied with doing the best I can, and (usually) laugh at my own fuck-ups. I care a whole lot less about how strangers perceive me than I did when I was younger, although I never worried about that all that much even then.

    But in other ways, I'm a lot less tolerant and accepting than I was back when I was in my twenties and still trying to figure out the world. Back then, I could accept that people had different opinions, I believed they were all deserving of respect and I didn't judge. Over the last few decades though, I've come to the conclusion that the world is full of idiots, and an awful lot of them have strong opinions that are delusional, harmful to themselves, their communities and humanity in general, and quite a few of them are utterly batshit crazy.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    I havent stopped giving fucks Ive just accepted the game of life isnt fair but you have to still have to play

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  • SkullsNRoses

    I’m only 25 so not the most experienced on this subject but I certainly don’t care about random people’s opinions or rude comments as much as I once did. There are still areas I could improve in but one day this asexual will truly have no more fucks to give *ba dum tss*

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  • Lusty-Argonian

    Older you get the more you realize life sucks and care less abd less. Why do you think old people are so damn crabby?

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  • Curiouskitten444

    I agree as I've gained more perspective and inight.

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  • Holzman_67

    It works in two ways I think. I mean, you don’t spend so long fretting over smaller stuff (but that can happen if you suppress yourself too much and get an anxiety buildup) but there are other things.
    It's the caffeine, the nicotine, the milligrams of tar
    It's habitat, it needs to be cleaned, it's your car
    It's the fast talk they use to abuse and feed your brain
    It's the cat box it needs to be changed, it's the pain
    It's women, it's the plight for power it's government
    It's the way others are giving knowledge
    slow with thought control and subtle hints
    It's rubbing it, It's itching it, It's applying cream
    It's the foreigners sight seeing with high beams in your dreams
    It's the monsters that you conjure, It's the marijuana
    It's embarrassment, displacement, it's where you wander
    It's your genre, It's Madonnas videos
    It's game shows, cheap liquor, blunts,
    and bumper stickers with rainbows
    It's angels, demons, gods, it's the white devils
    It's the economy, the houses, it's the stress levels
    It's gas fumes, fast food, Tommy Hil' and too many pills
    It’s christian conservative terrorists, it's porno flicks
    It's the east coast, no it's the west coast
    It's public schools, it's asbestos
    It's mentholated, It's techno
    It's sleep, life, and death
    It's speed, coke, and meth
    It's hay fever, pain relievers, oral sex, and smokers breathIt's in the water, it's in the air, it's in the meat
    It's indirect, indiscrete, inconsistent, incomplete
    It's in the streets, every city and everywhere you go
    In every man it's the insanity, the fantasy, the casualties
    It's the health care system, it's welfare victims
    It's assault weapons, it's television religion, and it's false lessons
    It's cops, police, pigs with badges guns and sticks
    It's harassment and a complex you carry when you're running shit
    It's wondering if you get to eat, it's the heat
    It's the winter , the weather
    It's herpes, and it's forever
    It's the virus that takes the lives of the weak and the strong
    It's the forms you’re always filling out for someone
    It's that need to speak long, it's that hunger for attention
    It's the wack , who attack songs of redemption
    It's prevention, It's the first solution
    It's loose, it's out for retribution,
    it's mental pollution and public execution
    It's the nails that keep your hands and feet to these boards
    It's the part time job that governs what you can afford
    It's the fear, It's the fake news
    That spews and confuse
    It's the dollar, yen, pound, it's all denomination
    It's hourly wages for your professional observations
    It's on your face and it's in your eyes

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    • Curiouskitten444

      Nice

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    • YE

      Let's make this a rap song.

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      • Somenormie

        If it were a rap song it will hit #1 in the charts.

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        • YE

          Yeah, especially if the intro line is "I came to bring the pain, hardcore from the brain/Let's go inside my astral plane."

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      • Holzman_67

        Lookup atmosphere “scapegoat”

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        • YE

          I def will, thanks.

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    • RoseIsabella

      You could make this into a short stream of consciousness film.

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  • Somenormie

    The more you grow the less fucks that you give people.

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