Where is your life heading and where do you plan to be ten years from now?

[Contrarian Expatriate]

The only cognitive deficit I've noticed with age is very short-term memory loss. If I want to remember what I planned to do ten seconds ago I need to take a second and sort of bookmark it, or it might disappear.

What you describe sounds much more like WORKING MEMORY, not short term memory which is a slight misnomer.

I learned that working memory in older adults tends to improve situationally by simply drinking a lot more water.

Also, language learning is good for preventing cognitive decline, but not so much for drastically improving brain activity and creating new neurological connections on a groundbreaking level. Look into this clinic if you want to reactivate your brain to the point where working memory normalizes, your day to day living improves, and your cognitive decline stops in its tracks.

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You can thank me later

Do you feel you're still getting results from TRT?

Very much so. My muscles virtually came back to life. The energy levels came back in spades too.

There is a mind body connection where if one is not up to par, the other follows suit. Keep them BOTH firing on all cylinders and it will take decades more to slow you down again.

[yick]

Also CE I was aware of your age, but @yick, I am surprised you are already in your late forties, I never would have guessed and had deduced from your previous posts you would be somewhere in your thirties at most.

Singledom and expatdom keep me mentally young/juvenile!

When I think about it for long enough, I can't believe I'm that age myself.

[gsjackson]

A septuagenarian later this year, but I still feel frisky and, as God is my witness, the young babes still check me out.

Wow, impressive! I always thought you were perhaps in your late fifties to early sixties at most, but now I think you may be our most senior member. Yohan is in his late sixties and has grandkids from both his daughters, Jester is also in his sixties but I feel you still have them beat by a hair.

I hope to grow old as gracefully and successfully as you. You say you don't encounter attractive women as you are currently in the US, have you been abroad at all lately or have you been for extended periods in the past, and if so, were? There are about forty years seperating my current self from you and I'm curious what those years looked like, what things you did, which steps you took and who, if anyone, you shared them with.

Also CE I was aware of your age, but @yick, I am surprised you are already in your late forties, I never would have guessed and had deduced from your previous posts you would be somewhere in your thirties at most.

Yeah, I've got a couple years on Yohan, about half a dozen on Jester, three on DaveWe. I believe there have been older posters here, but none who has been a regular participant. "The Senior Member" is a stock character in P.G. Wodehouse golf stories, who, if memory serves, is a bit daft and not quite up to the role of venerable old sage, but is always hanging around the club. The great Odbo resurfaced a couple years ago, via PM's that stopped when he found out I was an early baby boomer and thus a mortal enemy of humankind. At least Corny tolerates and continues to interact with me, and perhaps even holds out some hope for my chronologically damned soul.

I've been to Europe for a few months every year for the past 11, a total of 30 months. Shove off again April 14.

My bio? It's complicated. I've collected lots of academic degrees, including a PhD and JD. Lots of jobs, none of which ever really took -- lawyer, adjunct college faculty, political journalist (writing editorials for newspapers and managing editor of a national magazine), congressional aide, federal bureaucrat, substitute teacher (current gig), and, ever so briefly, a professional baseball player. Lots of women -- mostly brief encounters. I was dealt a good hand in life and have misplayed it, and am not entirely sure how.

I know, it sounds pathetic, but it's been mostly interesting, the lows haven't been very low, and I still look forward to the future. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast, man never is but always to be blessed." That line by Alexander Pope made me become an English major.

[HouseMD]

Planning to be retired, living off the land in the rural midwest with my wife. I want a bunker, several greenhouses, solar power, a small arsenal, the whole nine.

[Cornfed]

Planning to be retired, living off the land in the rural midwest with my wife. I want a bunker, several greenhouses, solar power, a small arsenal, the whole nine.

So you've gone into huge debt and taken up a prestigious slot just to work for a few years and then retire? What are you - a woman?

[Neo]

Side question. For a man who has children, for those who spank them, how does a man cope with having to spank his children? I don't think I could spank a child.

[MrMan]

Side question. For a man who has children, for those who spank them, how does a man cope with having to spank his children? I don't think I could spank a child.

I just rarely do it. When they get to certain age, taking away privileges, etc. seems to work. My children are fairly well behaved. Our biggest discipline issues have to do with control of electronic devices and getting them to start doing dishes early enough.

[MrMan]

I'm more at the don't buy green bananas stage of life. If I had to formulate a plan of action it would be simply try to discern God's will. My plans haven't worked out terribly well, maybe He'll propose something interesting.

God will probably want you in a nursing home being beaten up by blacks, which will be poetic justice for your boomerish support for the end of segregation.

Are there any blacks in New Zealand? Why do you hate them? Did you have a bad experience with the one black person you met when you were a child?

[MrMan]

Planning to be retired, living off the land in the rural midwest with my wife. I want a bunker, several greenhouses, solar power, a small arsenal, the whole nine.

Do you have a wife? Weren't you banging divorced chicks or something a while back? Do you have a wife, or are you just planning to get one?

I went into a store once and the sales lady said, "My I help you?" I said, "No thanks, I'm looking for my wife." Then I clarified, "I just wanted to make it clear that I'm already married." I've done that a couple of times. That gets a chuckle. That could probably be modified into some kind of pick up line.

[Yohan]

Anyway, what are your plans, hopes and dreams for the next decade? Where are you now, in 2020, and where will you be in 2030?

There are no plans anymore for my next decade, which could be the last decade in my life... Who knows? - Not sure, not so young anymore.

So far all is regulated in my life, no problem so far with myself, wife, 2 daughters, 2 granddaughters, 1 fosterdaughter...
Financially secure up to end of life, I am owner of a nice condominium unit in Japan and Thailand, car and motorcycle, health insurances which will pay my medical bills... nothing missing.

Really happy now, just enjoy my life....

[Cornfed]

Side question. For a man who has children, for those who spank them, how does a man cope with having to spank his children? I don't think I could spank a child.

Just stop being a pansy.

[Contrarian Expatriate]

Anyway, what are your plans, hopes and dreams for the next decade? Where are you now, in 2020, and where will you be in 2030?

There are no plans anymore for my next decade, which could be the last decade in my life... Who knows? - Not sure, not so young anymore.

So far all is regulated in my life, no problem so far with myself, wife, 2 daughters, 2 granddaughters, 1 fosterdaughter...
Financially secure up to end of life, I am owner of a nice condominium unit in Japan and Thailand, car and motorcycle, health insurances which will pay my medical bills... nothing missing.

Really happy now, just enjoy my life....

Good to hear from you Yohan. Glad you are doing well.

[Yohan]

Side question. For a man who has children, for those who spank them, how does a man cope with having to spank his children? I don't think I could spank a child.

Just stop being a pansy.

No idea what this question has to do with this thread, totally off topic.

However a rare moment where I agree with Cornfed and his reply.

You should never be 'the best friend of your children'. I am of course against any form of child mistreatment, but you should never act as a naive do-gooder who thinks he can always solve bad child behavior only with a kind talk...

Not so few stupid parents who cannot say 'NO' made the bad experience later on to visit their children in jail and realize their mistakes they made...

Sometimes you have to regulate behavior issues using some force, consider that as to put on the 'emergency brake' - otherwise your children are smart enough to consider you as a hopeless idiot who allows them anyway to do whatever they want.

[Neo]

Ten years from now, a man may have children who need discipline. OP also writes about having children and more of them.

[Yohan]

Anyway, what are your plans, hopes and dreams for the next decade? Where are you now, in 2020, and where will you be in 2030?

There are no plans anymore for my next decade, which could be the last decade in my life... Who knows? - Not sure, not so young anymore.

So far all is regulated in my life, no problem so far with myself, wife, 2 daughters, 2 granddaughters, 1 fosterdaughter...
Financially secure up to end of life, I am owner of a nice condominium unit in Japan and Thailand, car and motorcycle, health insurances which will pay my medical bills... nothing missing.

Really happy now, just enjoy my life....

Good to hear from you Yohan. Glad you are doing well.

Thank you!

For me everything is OK, openly said the best time of my life. I am not really rich, but if I look around in Asia and see how some people have to survive, I am truly far away from being poor...I should not complain about anything. For me the idea about relocation - 'Happier Abroad' - was the right decision.