How do you handle “old people talk”?

[emosoundlogic]

Saw some old friends. The conversation kept moving to sickness, injuries, of people we don’t know. We are in shape and healthy. Some of them have had health scares in the recent past. We always want our friends to be able to share about their own personal issues, but we really don’t want to hear about some guy they work with, or someone they went to school with 45 years ago who is sick now, OR the details of their new puss filled skin condition. If this is the future with them count us out. Anyone else experiencing this? How do you handle it?

 

[solienminh01]

@emosoundlogic I always joke when I have friends like that and we’re getting together that let’s take a couple minutes to talk about our ailments, and then move on to another topic, ha ha.

 

[tiger2727]

@emosoundlogic I guess you can take a couple possible actions..

One.. Enjoy your friends no matter what
Two.. Ask them to change the subject
Three.. Offer some insight on how you hope to avoid the plights of age..
Four.. Hope someone will listen to you some day when maybe you aren't in such a good position as today.

 

[emosoundlogic]

@tiger2727 We are the same age as them, we have had our own health challenges, surgeries, procedures, but we mention it and move on. This was the WHOLE night.

 

[tiger2727]

@emosoundlogic Time to take the lead.. Bring games, bring better subjects. Bring weed or edibles.. Be the agent of change.

 

[emosoundlogic]

@tiger2727 No drugs, but games maybe next time.

 

[loveseternalquestion]

@emosoundlogic Yep. Either they still have kids at home and can’t see life past it, aging parent issues and their own health stuff. My way of coping is to pick the restaurant so I can at least pretend I’m listening when I’m really more interested in the food.

 

[roberto1820]

@emosoundlogic I feel like this is due to a lack of self awareness. I share your frustration with people who do this.

 

[umar]

@emosoundlogic Are you hanging out with my mother?

 

[sanj79]

@emosoundlogic I know I’m going to sound like an elitist dick when I say this but when I go out in public I just can’t believe how fat everyone is. Keep on mind, I don’t think they should disrespected, or treated baby but WTF is going on? For the most part fitness is easy. I just bought a nice set of resistance bands for home training, google, YouTube, chatgpt and smartphone apps can help you come up with training plans and education. Meanwhile, everyone is on that damn Ozempic suffering all those bad side effects. They would get better results by just doing a simple PPL workout for less than 4 hours a week but people have time to waste on TikTok, Facebook, and watching Kim Kardashian. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

 

[aramazd]

@sanj79 I can’t believe what I just read. Your comment has nothing to do with the OP. It’a not elitist. It’s far worse.

 

[sanj79]

@aramazd No it does. The sickness,injuries and health scares could be mitigated with strength training, but hardly anyone does it. Did we as a people learn anything when the news was talking about the comorbidities of Covid?