You're right on target - early 40's it deteriorates and then when your strength starts to go in your 60's, the eyesight comes back. Go figure.
getting old sucks
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Cecil
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I was very lucky after Lasik surgery. One eye shifted slightly nearsighted and I ended up with mono vision. It really is the best of both worlds, one eye for distance one for close up. I need some help with really small print in dark places.
On this subject I was diving last Saturday and the visibility was so bad...
How bad was it?
It was less than my eye's minimum focus distance.
On this subject I was diving last Saturday and the visibility was so bad...
How bad was it?
It was less than my eye's minimum focus distance.
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Well, I've had poor eyesight all my life ... runs in the family (all my sibs do to) ... so that's no big deal. Vision is easily correctable. What I've noticed as I've gotten older is that ...
- My hair seems to have migrated from the top of my head to places where hair was never meant to grow.
- My clothing has an annoying tendency to shrink much faster than it did when I was younger ... most perplexing is how it can happen to a trilaminate drysuit ... :11:
- My definition of an "all-nighter" has changed to mean one where I don't wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom ... :browsmile
Oddly, when I think back to the earlier parts of my life, I wouldn't trade these years for those years ... in fact, I'm rather looking forward to seeing what the next "chapter" will bring ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
- My hair seems to have migrated from the top of my head to places where hair was never meant to grow.
- My clothing has an annoying tendency to shrink much faster than it did when I was younger ... most perplexing is how it can happen to a trilaminate drysuit ... :11:
- My definition of an "all-nighter" has changed to mean one where I don't wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom ... :browsmile
Oddly, when I think back to the earlier parts of my life, I wouldn't trade these years for those years ... in fact, I'm rather looking forward to seeing what the next "chapter" will bring ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
ArcticDiver
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justleesa:Not whining...stating a fact
Ooops, guess I pricked a sensitive spot, eh? Lots of great photogs over the years who did outstanding work past 40... You'll find a way to accomodate, just like many others over the years. Then when I come to Oahu in January you'll have lots of good images to show off.
And now the news:
...and on a more positive note....
Today's 60's are yesterday's 40's, according to sources.
Just a few decades ago, a forty year old man or woman was looking toward the final twenty productive years of their lives, followed by sedentary retirement. Today, sixty year olds are healthier, more active and living longer. Retirement has been pushed further and further ahead, and life spans are continually increasing, rendering today's sixty years olds vital, productive, and happily looking toward their next twenty active years.
"I'm just getting started!" bellowed forty-seven year old Scuba Diver Rick Inman as he dove head first off the local pier while sporting a set of twin 95 scuba tanks.
Medical experts are predicting even more advances in both the care and prevention of age related conditions in the next twenty years. Artificial organ transplants may become the norm. Nano technology could detect coronary and vestibular disease and treat it at it's beginning stages.
"By the time I reach eighty, " said Rick Inman, pushing his mask up onto his forehead as he surfaced from a deep trimix dive, "they'll be calling eighty years old the new sixty's!"
In conclusion, middle agers have more reason to be excited about their active future than ever before.
And, in a related story... TV evangelist Pat Robertson predicted that the end of the world will come next Tuesday during the airing of American Idol...
...and on a more positive note....
Today's 60's are yesterday's 40's, according to sources.
Just a few decades ago, a forty year old man or woman was looking toward the final twenty productive years of their lives, followed by sedentary retirement. Today, sixty year olds are healthier, more active and living longer. Retirement has been pushed further and further ahead, and life spans are continually increasing, rendering today's sixty years olds vital, productive, and happily looking toward their next twenty active years.
"I'm just getting started!" bellowed forty-seven year old Scuba Diver Rick Inman as he dove head first off the local pier while sporting a set of twin 95 scuba tanks.
Medical experts are predicting even more advances in both the care and prevention of age related conditions in the next twenty years. Artificial organ transplants may become the norm. Nano technology could detect coronary and vestibular disease and treat it at it's beginning stages.
"By the time I reach eighty, " said Rick Inman, pushing his mask up onto his forehead as he surfaced from a deep trimix dive, "they'll be calling eighty years old the new sixty's!"
In conclusion, middle agers have more reason to be excited about their active future than ever before.
And, in a related story... TV evangelist Pat Robertson predicted that the end of the world will come next Tuesday during the airing of American Idol...
fairybasslet
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I was so totally spoiled after that trip. The week was split up. 5 days of diving, back to port to drop off passengers who weren't doing the other leg of the trip and pick up those who were. I didn't know if he was going to be on the second leg, so I made sure I gave him his tip before I left for shore. Well, he was on the second leg and he was so happy to see me coming back on the longtail boat, he waved to me from far away. LOL.cfelliot:
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just because Pat is a little crazy, does not mean he is wrong. The two are not necesarily mutually exclusive.
Rick, you had your mask on your forehead and it was documented in a news story?
If yesterdays 40's are todays 30's, does that mean I am a child molester? yikes, I think I need it to stay the old way.
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