idk wtf I did but I woke up 2 days ago with this pain in my shoulder right inside where the shoulder itself meets my chest and man it hurts. It's so bad in the morning I can't lift my arm over my head. But as the day goes on (and taking some nsaids) it lessens a bit.
What did I do to myself?
I swear most of the shit people say about aging is made up (or at least that it's not so cut-and-dry as "this starts happening the microsecond you hit 40 years of age"), I've been having this type of post-sleep-ache thing happen to me for as long as I can remember, at least since I was in my early 20s. Sometimes complications of having a shitty human body happen, as long as it's not something serious/chronic you just roll with it until it goes away.
Although also I noticed that losing a considerable amount of weight did help me with reducing general acheyness.
Yeah oddly enough some of my issues (like waking up with numb limbs from positional sleep fuckery) is much less common now than it was when I was younger. A lot of stuff I try now I'm better at than when I was "in my physical prime" too. I suspect I'm just lucky / HRT is magic / it's just a matter of time before it all comes crumbling down.
I'm so much better at a lot of things than I was when I was younger, like learning new skills or playing video games, because I'm way more patient and willing to trial and error than I was when I was like, under 25. There isn't a single game I was better at when I was a kid that I'm not WAY better at now.
Damn straight. I stopped gaming because I have issues and can't ever just relax and enjoy things lately (for the last few years) but I was clutching 1v5s in CS:GO in my mid 30s against scrub ass nolife teenagers, after an 8+ hour work day. Like you said, we're better at learning to learn.
I suspect in my case at the time I also had a more complex life that meant I would session and then rest, sleep, process and learn subconsciously before coming back to the game. Where as when I was a kid I would just do nothing else and make no progress, because I left no room to develop.
Skating too, before I stopped doing that again. Couldn't ollie for shit as a kid, then when I was "too old" for it I was able to analytically solve the problem, digest the advice, watch myself failing to do the thing and correct the mistakes. Wish I'd stuck with it but eh, if I really wanted to I would have.