More challenging with age

I find that I have less energy; to function. Plus, my meds make me sleep longer than I need.

I feel that, whenever we were young, our society encouraged us to make poor lifestyle choices. Now, the Health Bubble exploded, and we feel desperate.

Desmond79 said:

I feel that, whenever we were young, our society encouraged us to make poor lifestyle choices.

We had it easy compared to the young ones today...

Having been diagnosed later in life and given my 30 years in supermarket retailing, living in a socially deprived area of Manchester for 21 years and as an older Irish gay man, being raised a Catholic in Rural Ireland, I definitely agree with this when I look at children and young people now, but especially in the last 10-15 years before Covid - in the post-Covid era, these challenges are going to get much tougher for all of us, young and old alike - our parents generation are largely responsible for much of this, as they failed to heed the warnings from our grandparents generation, before our grandparents passed in the 1980’s, because our parents allowed themselves to be deceived and manipulated, giving away their power in the process and making us by extension far less powerful to effect real and meaningful change in our society - once we moved out of the confusion of our teenage years, as we began to experience real life for ourselves, we began to realise that our grandparents were correct all along, as we witnessed the terrible price that our parents generation paid for their folly in their later lives before their own passing - those of my own generation who are parents of very young children themselves in my extended family and friends have expressed similar concerns - the actual babies of today face the toughest challenges yet if they manage to reach their teenage years and if they make it to adulthood and they will certainly not have the (relative) freedoms that we had growing up in the 1970’s & 1980’s, even the 1990’s as children and teenagers 

Having been diagnosed later in life and given my 30 years in supermarket retailing, living in a socially deprived area of Manchester for 21 years and as an older Irish gay man, being raised a Catholic in Rural Ireland, I definitely agree with this when I look at children and young people now, but especially in the last 10-15 years before Covid - in the post-Covid era, these challenges are going to get much tougher for all of us, young and old alike - our parents generation are largely responsible for much of this, as they failed to heed the warnings from our grandparents generation, before our grandparents passed in the 1980’s, because our parents allowed themselves to be deceived and manipulated, giving away their power in the process and making us by extension far less powerful to effect real and meaningful change in our society - once we moved out of the confusion of our teenage years, as we began to experience real life for ourselves, we began to realise that our grandparents were correct all along, as we witnessed the terrible price that our parents generation paid for their folly in their later lives before their own passing - those of my own generation who are parents of very young children themselves in my extended family and friends have expressed similar concerns - the actual babies of today face the toughest challenges yet if they manage to reach their teenage years and if they make it to adulthood and they will certainly not have the (relative) freedoms that we had growing up in the 1970’s & 1980’s, even the 1990’s as children and teenagers