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Remy, have you been in your parents house for more than 3 days? That sounds like grown-offspring-as-visitor crankiness. I get that, as much as I love and miss my kids and step-kids. There are limits to my cheerful hospitality, currently at the 3-5 day mark. I take it out on non-related visitors by forced silent smiling while inwardly chanting "they'll be gone soon", but with the kids it just comes out, and about the oddest things.
― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link
No, it is not inevitable.
There are two major sources for age-related grumpiness. The first is rooted in bad health and nagging aches and pains. These do not invariably lead to grumpiness. Sunnier dispositions and more stoical ones both tend to resist the urge to grumpiness in the face of pain.
The second (and worse) cause of grumpiness is caused by another sort of pain - the self-loathing brought about by a lifetime of disappointments, foregone opportunities, crushed dreams and simple inertia. When people come to accept themselves as worthless losers, forever marked out by their inability to do anything worthwhile, they often take their revenge on life by causing pain for everyone around them.
You avoid this second cause by the simple expedients of persistence and courage. Live your life like you value it and you won't be one bit grumpier in your middle or old age. Chances are you'll be happier than you are today.
― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
fourteen years pass...