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er right now that fluctuates with hmm, I don’t seem to be able to move my shoulder at all for a week. It is a battle of acceptance with a sprinkling of a lot of curse words. There can be a sense of relief that you don’t have someone worse. That’s what I tell myself.</p><p id="ed78">The reality is it becomes a morbid game of, for instance, where will gout travel this week? Hooray. Will it be the little toe? The top of a foot? Perhaps, it will occur on the side of the foot? Or the ankle? Between the two middle toes? Left or Right? Aw, screw it, just blow up the entire foot so it looks a giant roasted beet! Avoid gout if you can. It’s up there with kidney stones! Oh wait, I’ve had those too. Yay, aging!</p><p id="a3c6"><b>Good Things Involving Aging</b></p><p id="8a4f">But, is there really? I no longer drink alcohol and don’t eat quite as recklessly, so there are no hangovers or as many gastrointestinal distresses to contend with, which is nice. Wisdom and time have stated you are too old to party. The brain still thinks it wants to, but that’s pride for you.</p><p id="ba2f">As attrition levels us all out, we have to form an allegiance between pride and aging. This involves learning to accept what you can’t do anymore and being appreciative of what you no longer do, that would have hurt you anyway.</p><p id="d803">Sometimes our ailments end in a week. Sometimes they last longer or never fully resolve. The body is complex and simple like that. The hope is that they will pass until the next physical challenge. The truth is that they will always come for you until the end. That is why living daily and being gracious to yourself is so important.</p><p id="68fd"><b>Struggling With Pride</b></p><p id="a0f5">I think we all have the ability to find ourselves smiling. The degree of the smile is congruent with the amount of pride we hold onto. We can be noble in our final days and go out with some integrity but we are going to go out regardless of how we feel.</p><p id="8571">We can be proud of a painting or of a well-mowed lawn, but self-pride as it relates to aging, is different. It is a struggle to preserve our mental health as we grow tinier in our mental and physical abilities. There are two kinds of pride to consider.</p><figure id="5439"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*TcHPczvoRUd3mvXQ"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@timovaknar?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Timo Wagner</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p id="0cf8"><b>Internal pride vs External pride</b></p><p id="6a06">You can be proud of dunking a basketball as a youth. It becomes unhealthy being shameful of yourself for no longer being able to do so. This is a pride defeater. Aged pride can be sweet or acidic based on how we are calculating our thoughts. At the same time, we have our pride taunting us and making it difficul

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t to exist in a positive fashion.</p><p id="2b74">You have to link your aged pride to aged realities. Be proud of saving some money that your younger self may have wasted on experience. Be proud of that youth who sacrificed funds for that experience. You will always have that experience. Money is transitory. That memory will reside in your explicit memory - the hippocampus, amygdala, and your neocortex for years to come. There is nothing wrong with being prideful. It matters where the intent is laid.</p><p id="1d7d">If you want to blame yourself and call yourself a failure because of something you could once do or wish you could heal more quickly, then you may have to talk to this person and get them sorted out…</p><div id="b3af" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/what-is-your-internal-critics-name-cd7177e4808d"> <div> <div> <h2>What Is Your Internal Critic’s Name?</h2> <div><h3>A Tiny Moment of “Facing Your Worst Foe”</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*PUHkXny_-H8CPzHm)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="8145"><b>Battle of “Oldtrition”</b></p><p id="ab65">As we near the end of our journey, we will lose far more than we’ve gained but what remains will hopefully be richer and wiser. May our pained bodies and days be shorter-lasting and our smiles and wrinkles be deeper.</p><p id="adae"><b>Takeaway</b></p><ul><li>Be kind to that aging self.</li><li>Know that you tried your best and life’s loss is wisdom gained.</li><li>Adapt to the mystery. Treat it like a detective.</li><li>Sometimes you hurt for a while and then it goes away.</li><li>Try to be grateful for the things you don’t have, that you wouldn't want.</li><li>Enjoy feeling really good because it will be temporary.</li><li>Know that feeling bad will also change frequencies.</li></ul><p id="e52a"><i>Josh Kiev is an actor, chef, and is currently taking a lot of ibuprofen and smells like ICY HOT!</i></p><p id="35f3">If you liked the above, I have lots more to share and I kindly request you to specifically do the following:</p><p id="986a">1. Follow me on <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshKiev">Twitter</a> & <a href="https://medium.com/@chefkiev">Medium</a>. 2. Give a Like or a Clap. 3. If possible, please leave a comment. I would love to have feedback. 4. If possible, please share my article on your Twitter, Medium, or Facebook feed.</p><p id="3c04">For it is only by connecting with the world at large, learning from the world, and sharing with the world that you and I will be able to make a genuine difference to the world. This is my life’s purpose. Take care for now. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your time. <b>Connect or Perish.</b></p></article></body>

The Journey of Traveling Ailments

The Battle of “Old-trition”

The film, Pulp Fiction, is not just a crazy, violent, intense film. I mean, it is, but there are quite a few life lessons we can process from it’s viewing. Let’s look at some thoughts on the aging of the human body.

The film’s main protagonist, Marsellus Wallace, says it best…

I think you are gonna find, when this shit is over … I think you’re gonna find yourself one smiling mother****er. The thing is, Butch, right now, you’ve got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don’t last. And your days are just about over. Now, that’s a hard mother****ing fact of life. But it’s a fact of life your ass is gonna have to get realistic about. See, this business is filled to the brim with unrealistic mother****ers. Mother****ers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don’t. The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride ****ing with you. **** pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.

Well, now we have an added thought. Pride. Pride and aging are constantly at odds. How can we age comfortably when it appears we are turning into vinegar right before our very eyes?

Getting Old Stinks

It really does. Lots of icy hot and other ointments. The title of this story could have easily been traveling ointments and it would have fit. It’s difficult to accept our limitations as we grow older. Why can’t we eat an entire Pepperidge Farm cake anymore and not gain seven pounds before the fork hits the plate? Why aren’t 3-Liter sodas part of a nutritious diet?

We watch ourselves grow more tired and cannot push ourselves to the brink like we used to and it makes us sad. We don’t want to be complacent and it is a challenge to say no to things that we might regret having dome the next day. I see you tennis players who still try to jump over the net after a heated set!

At Least I Don’t Have That

There are different ways to process aging. Aging can become a tale of not having skin cancer right now that fluctuates with hmm, I don’t seem to be able to move my shoulder at all for a week. It is a battle of acceptance with a sprinkling of a lot of curse words. There can be a sense of relief that you don’t have someone worse. That’s what I tell myself.

The reality is it becomes a morbid game of, for instance, where will gout travel this week? Hooray. Will it be the little toe? The top of a foot? Perhaps, it will occur on the side of the foot? Or the ankle? Between the two middle toes? Left or Right? Aw, screw it, just blow up the entire foot so it looks a giant roasted beet! Avoid gout if you can. It’s up there with kidney stones! Oh wait, I’ve had those too. Yay, aging!

Good Things Involving Aging

But, is there really? I no longer drink alcohol and don’t eat quite as recklessly, so there are no hangovers or as many gastrointestinal distresses to contend with, which is nice. Wisdom and time have stated you are too old to party. The brain still thinks it wants to, but that’s pride for you.

As attrition levels us all out, we have to form an allegiance between pride and aging. This involves learning to accept what you can’t do anymore and being appreciative of what you no longer do, that would have hurt you anyway.

Sometimes our ailments end in a week. Sometimes they last longer or never fully resolve. The body is complex and simple like that. The hope is that they will pass until the next physical challenge. The truth is that they will always come for you until the end. That is why living daily and being gracious to yourself is so important.

Struggling With Pride

I think we all have the ability to find ourselves smiling. The degree of the smile is congruent with the amount of pride we hold onto. We can be noble in our final days and go out with some integrity but we are going to go out regardless of how we feel.

We can be proud of a painting or of a well-mowed lawn, but self-pride as it relates to aging, is different. It is a struggle to preserve our mental health as we grow tinier in our mental and physical abilities. There are two kinds of pride to consider.

Internal pride vs External pride

You can be proud of dunking a basketball as a youth. It becomes unhealthy being shameful of yourself for no longer being able to do so. This is a pride defeater. Aged pride can be sweet or acidic based on how we are calculating our thoughts. At the same time, we have our pride taunting us and making it difficult to exist in a positive fashion.

You have to link your aged pride to aged realities. Be proud of saving some money that your younger self may have wasted on experience. Be proud of that youth who sacrificed funds for that experience. You will always have that experience. Money is transitory. That memory will reside in your explicit memory - the hippocampus, amygdala, and your neocortex for years to come. There is nothing wrong with being prideful. It matters where the intent is laid.

If you want to blame yourself and call yourself a failure because of something you could once do or wish you could heal more quickly, then you may have to talk to this person and get them sorted out…

What Is Your Internal Critic’s Name?

A Tiny Moment of “Facing Your Worst Foe”

medium.com

Battle of “Oldtrition”

As we near the end of our journey, we will lose far more than we’ve gained but what remains will hopefully be richer and wiser. May our pained bodies and days be shorter-lasting and our smiles and wrinkles be deeper.

Takeaway

Be kind to that aging self.
Know that you tried your best and life’s loss is wisdom gained.
Adapt to the mystery. Treat it like a detective.
Sometimes you hurt for a while and then it goes away.
Try to be grateful for the things you don’t have, that you wouldn't want.
Enjoy feeling really good because it will be temporary.
Know that feeling bad will also change frequencies.

Josh Kiev is an actor, chef, and is currently taking a lot of ibuprofen and smells like ICY HOT!

If you liked the above, I have lots more to share and I kindly request you to specifically do the following:

1. Follow me on Twitter & Medium. 2. Give a Like or a Clap. 3. If possible, please leave a comment. I would love to have feedback. 4. If possible, please share my article on your Twitter, Medium, or Facebook feed.

For it is only by connecting with the world at large, learning from the world, and sharing with the world that you and I will be able to make a genuine difference to the world. This is my life’s purpose. Take care for now. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your time. Connect or Perish.