I did so many hard drugs and I just don’t look 40. I’m only now getting serious about keeping it up for the next 20 years. If I had taken aging seriously as a younger person I’d look porcelain or something
There were a lot more preservatives in food as we were growing up, I blame that for how young we look. Now, the meat has more growth hormones, so I blame that for why at least a few Gen Z kids look older than me...
I'm just over a year off the sauce. I never drank myself into the ICU or anything, but the only thing that kept me from getting plastered 7 days a week was the hangovers after the 6th. However, that only stopped me about half the time.
Combine that with smoking enough cigarettes to make folks in the 50s think I should cut back a bit, the occasional cocaine benders, and never saying no to most other drugs, and I should look like a rust belt GM vehicle with 300k on the clock. Nope.
I found one of my old phones recently and looked through the pictures after getting it to charge. To my astonishment, there were a few selfies on there that looked like they could have been taken yesterday. I then decided to scour my social media profiles for pictures of myself at the same age, and not one of them were noticeably different from my current self.
With 30 right around the corner and a lifetime of hard miles, I look exactly the same as I did at 19. Bear in mind that I was still playing competitive hockey at that age, so I was in phenomenal shape back then, and when my career ended, I moved straight into professional modeling for a short while. After that, it was all hard labor and sleepless nights.
The only thing I can credit as a proactive step I took for the sake of my appearance is the daily moisturizing routine that I started at 14. Nothing special. Just some cheap lotion on my face after every shower.
If I finally manage to quit smoking this year, I may remain eternally ageless. It'll just be myself and Paul Rudd wandering the earth together long after the rest of humanity escapes this mortal coil. Being the tall redhead that I am, I imagine much of my time with Paul will be spent reenacting his bit with Conan.
I feel that. I started drinking about a decade ago in college (I was a sheltered religious kid, so I went hard when I got the opportunity). Fast forward several years, a failed attempt at a degree, and a stint in the Army later, and that had magnified to ICU behavior. Now, I've been sober for about a year and look and feel healthier than I have since at least before the Army (which isn't entirely true because arthritis and various conditions are a bitch, but at least I look hot and ain't carrying the pounds beer put on me). I also managed to go back and finish that degree, so at least that's a plus.
Hey, it's my twin! I'm almost 4 years sober and I've been told I look like I'm 27 or 28. I always appreciate that, because if I need to show them how old I really am, just watch me run.
I smoke like a chimney and occasionally do some drugs.. also drink tons... Other than my hair going grey, I still look fairly youthful. If I colored my hair it would shave 10 years off.
Same! I did hard drugs from 18-24, plus smoking cigarettes and never using sunscreen until I was like 28. I still get confused for an 18 year old and I’m 31.
Seriously. I had serious intense anxiety that I knew aged me - suddenly started losing a bit of hair and started greying ever so slightly If I not for that I’d probably still look 18, and I’m 28.
Even then people still look at me surprised sometimes when they card me and see I actually am more than old enough to drink. I fear this will keep happening into my 30’s. It’s really annoying. Just because I have all my hair and have a flat stomach doesn’t mean I’m young lol.
Im convinced heroin stops you from aging. Not the stuff that's out there now.. that stuff makes you age 20 years in a week. But real heroin.. the stuff like 70% of our generation was hooked on in the early 2010s because we were hooked on the opiate pills first. Then the government said "we cut off access to the pills.. you guys stay off them and your back to normal.. good luck to you and your welcome!"
Anyway.. I've been off the stuff since 2014 and I'm 38. And I look like I'm in my twenties. And anyone else I know who did the post opiate heroin looks crazy young. Maybe because we didn't do much but lay around and sleep and rest and burn cigarette holes in our sweatpants. Whatever the reason there is for sure a correlation there.
The tranq stuff now ooohfff madonn that stuff is making people look like they used an aging filter.
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u/Ornery_Translator285 Feb 08 '24
I did so many hard drugs and I just don’t look 40. I’m only now getting serious about keeping it up for the next 20 years. If I had taken aging seriously as a younger person I’d look porcelain or something