The Long Game: How Do You Plan To Cope For The Next 50+ Years Of Life?

[IdealForehead]

In recent years I have come to view life as an endurance sport. Ie. You just have to have enough endurance to ride it out and we all end up the same in the end.

But since we are mostly in our 20s and 30s, that means another 50+ years of coping to go.

So how do you plan to cope in the long game?

 

[Exodus2011]

one day at a time. its hard to imagine many years from now anyways

ill think a year ahead at the most

 

[sunchyme1]

alcohol

 

[blackg]

In recent years I have come to view life as an endurance sport. Ie. You just have to have enough endurance to ride it out and we all end up the same in the end.

But since we are mostly in our 20s and 30s, that means another 50+ years of coping to go.

So how do you plan to cope in the long game?

Alcohol. Copious amounts.

 

[CopeForLife]

alco + drugs

 

[davesmith420]

finasteride then dutasteride then a hair transplant

 

[JohnsonDDG]

I always slept with as many women as I could in my late 20s in case I couldn't get them when I was older.

Worst case scenario I could live off the memories.

I often thought about writing a book about sex addiction (or however you would like to term reckless sexual behavior).

 

[Stanx22]

My goal now is to cure brain fog and restore my previous intelligence and then i'll know what i want and what i need to know. This can make me forget entirely about hair loss.

 

[Baldingat188]

Career I enjoy , secluded house by the sea , pet dog , cool car , relatively cheap / crappy house , hair piece , gym cel , tattoocel , hipster max

Do not plan on being in a relationship or having kids. I feel I can be happy like this.

Hair piece is last resort.

 

[Baldingat188]

Also to add onto what others said on alchol / drugs

This is actually a decent cope . Once you go full bald might as well try some neat drugs so I should add that into my list

 

[buckthorn]

By building a life that's worthwhile: taking up cool jobs, playing music, maintaining the romance in my relationship, raising kids, lifting weights, travelling, enjoying great entertainment, writing...

And of course jumping on new hair loss treatments as soon as they get released.

wish I could "love" this. Good for you man. I am glad you have this perspective.

 

[buckthorn]

In recent years I have come to view life as an endurance sport. Ie. You just have to have enough endurance to ride it out and we all end up the same in the end.

But since we are mostly in our 20s and 30s, that means another 50+ years of coping to go.

So how do you plan to cope in the long game?

I plan trips in advance to force myself to live out of my newly found "comfort zone" with disfiguring hair loss. I have already two months of planned trips this year all over the U.S. and spain, Central and South America. Toppix - 0 Buckthorn - 1

 

[Dontwannabeabetabob]

This

 

[Exodus2011]

Career I enjoy , secluded house by the sea , pet dog , cool car , relatively cheap / crappy house , hair piece , gym cel , tattoocel , hipster max

Do not plan on being in a relationship or having kids. I feel I can be happy like this.

Hair piece is last resort.

i bet you wont actually get a hairpiece if you go bald. its a lot different actually doing it

Also to add onto what others said on alchol / drugs

This is actually a decent cope . Once you go full bald might as well try some neat drugs so I should add that into my list

drugs are an awesome completely unique experience and are therefore worth doing even as a fullhead. think about it, directly changing the brain- its basically hacking into the brain itself, there's nothing like it

 

[blackg]

I always slept with as many women as I could in my late 20s in case I couldn't get them when I was older.

Worst case scenario I could live off the memories.

I often thought about writing a book about sex addiction (or however you would like to term reckless sexual behavior).

You should! You should write an autobiographical account of all of your sexcapades so far.

This would be a good book. It would be in the 'humble brag' section.

 

[blackg]

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Don't do it, my friend. At least until after the Super Bowl.

 

[Baldingat188]

i bet you wont actually get a hairpiece if you go bald. its a lot different actually doing it


drugs are an awesome completely unique experience and are therefore worth doing even as a fullhead. think about it, directly changing the brain- its basically hacking into the brain itself, there's nothing like it

You know what I look like so you know how weird I would look bald. Yea it would suck having one but I would have no choice.

I agree drugs can be pretty cool, I'm just saying espically if you are in a bad place in life there's no reason not to try them.

 

[Oscar66]

alcohol

Yep...Me too..

 

[IdealForehead]

drugs are an awesome completely unique experience and are therefore worth doing even as a fullhead. think about it, directly changing the brain- its basically hacking into the brain itself, there's nothing like it

Yeah I just read an article on how hallucinogens completely rewire your brain to give you a healthier and less self-oriented perspective, eg.:

In a small study that was the first of its kind, the Imperial College London team, led by the school’s Head of Psychedelic Research Robin Carhart-Harris, Ph.D., used brain imaging to observe changes in the brains of depressed people who were dosed with psilocybin.

“Several of our patients described feeling ‘reset’ after the treatment and often used computer analogies,” said Carhart-Harris in a statement. “For example, one said he felt like his brain had been ‘defragged’ like a computer hard drive, and another said he felt ‘rebooted’.”

He continued by explaining that the drug gives people the “temporary ‘kick start’ they need to break out of their depressive states and these imaging results do tentatively support a ‘reset’ analogy. Similar brain effects to these have been seen with electroconvulsive therapy.”

This feeling of “resetting” seems to be linked to psilocybin’s ability to reduce blood flow to certain parts of the brain immediately following treatment. In the study, the 20 participants involved each received a 10-milligram dose of psilocybin one week, followed by a 25-milligram dose the next. On the days before and after they received the higher dose, their brains were scanned using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) device, which visualizes the flow of blood in different regions in the brain.

An analysis of those scans showed that psilocybin changed blood flow in the amygdala, the part of the brain that’s thought to deal with emotions, like stress and fear.

In their article, the researchers explain that these effects are akin to what previous studies on the psychedelic experience have described as “ego-dissolution” — the feeling of losing your sense of self. When people experience this, what’s actually happening in their brain is that it’s entering an “entropic brain state,” which is when the connectivity between all the small regions that make up the brain is compromised but the connectivity of the brain as a whole is enhanced. Even more important is what comes after this experience: After the brain breaks itself down — or “resets” — it seems to reconfigure all of its connections, which is what’s thought to the feeling of being “rebooted.”

https://www.inverse.com/article/37400-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin-reset-depression​

Pretty neat. Might have to add it to my own personal list of future copes which currently includes: Getting an ideal forehead, daro for life, revision jaw surgery, VR p**rn, playing music, hookers, lifting weights, and maybe occasionally going out for a dinner date with a fat/ugly/old chick if i get too lonely.

 

[JohnsonDDG]

You should! You should write an autobiographical account of all of your sexcapades so far.

This would be a good book. It would be in the 'humble brag' section.

Humble brag is more when you pretend to criticize yourself when you are secretly bragging.

I think this would just be an honest story about things I have done with women - both the good and the bad and how a man experiences these things.

Women have this kind of stuff with the shows sex and the city and girl - but there isn't many stories about how many experience dating etc.