Well Fuck…

I’m kinda with kdf, it might not be a bad thing. Childhood is kinda high pressure, all the way through the brain growth period. I’ve spent alot of time observing it. We put a lot of romance into it as a culture, but we do that to a lot of things that suck, like childbirth. We actually don’t put much into getting older, weird.

but back into my theory, that brain shrinkage might be a net positive. I’ve noticed that older people are less sensitive about a lot of stuff, easier going. What’s going on is that your brain doesn’t grow new cells. so your net losing cells across the whole organ. Where you lose tends to relate to what you do. If you have an active lifestyle, you’ll lose more in the areas involved in abstract thinking and concentration. Alternatively, less active, you lose out in hormonal regulation.

and it takes a long time to catch up. So my dad has lived an inactive mentally focused life, and he’s getting a little pudgier, year by year, he’s still pretty much fine. Most people don’t really start to get feeble until their 80s or 90s, that is unless they develop a serious substance abuse problem