I'm 46....and you guys are scaring me
I quit jumping down from things and am careful with my knees. All the time in the Army in my 20's...starting to feel effects of that now. But after some random knee injury last year I realized how much a bad knee sucks so am a lot more careful.
Getting hard to do repetitive things with hands, even if nothing difficult. Like trimming a bunch of rifle brass or something - just doing the same thing over & over even though it doesn't require lots of hand strength, hands really start to hurt. Something as simple a feeding bullets in a progressive press, after a while that starts to hurt....but something requiring a little grip strength and repetitive, hurts much quicker.
About a year ago I noticed things with small print I had to put in bright light to read. Stuff like a nutrition label on a small item like a yogurt or pack of crackers - never had an issue seeing that stuff, but suddenly needed bright light and maybe hold it a little farther out. That quit working & now use 1.0 or 1.25 readers. From what others have told me, once this starts will see a fairly quick progression needing to keep stepping up strength on the readers...don't like the sound of that since my vision has always been excellent. So far, I don't notice any issues with a rifle scope and hope that stays OK - I like to do precision shooting at 300 yds.
More of a mental thing, but one thing I do a lot less of as I get older is
give a sh--. Stuff that bothered me, stuff I'd stress about, missing a goal or having an upset customer at work....just don't care as much about that like I did before. I never really understood people who said stuff like "leave work at work" - I didn't get it and would worry about deadlines or hard projects or what was happening at work on a day off. My mind just wouldn't shift gears from at work to at home. Just sort of happened over past few years and I'm able to leave on Friday, not give much thought about what's happening over the weekend (unless there is something
absolutely critical), and just pick back up Monday morning.
Absolutely critical definition very much redefined from any little whim my boss spurted out to what really does matter. Other stuff too...was passionate about politics....still have my views and leaning, but now look at it more like they're ALL crooks and performers worried about their own interests vs the USA or their constituents. Left wing, right wing - both part of the same bird and that bird is vulture. Or with relationships....mrs CMV would be upset over something or I'd be upset over something....I don't intentionally try to irritate her, but if she gets all worked up and doesn't quickly move past "I'm sorry about that"....I really don't care much...happy wife = happy life I get that, but she wants to be mad & hold a grudge over something for a day or 2, go ahead...I don't really care about appeasing, groveling, or making further amends. Same when I'm the one irritated....just let go of it and move on....not worth dragging stuff on....