Comments on: Life at the inflection point https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/life-at-the-inflection-point.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Chris https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/life-at-the-inflection-point.html#comment-9865 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:41:15 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22777#comment-9865 My ailment started right at 40 and it was a cascading effect from a medical mishap: “Oh, I hope the antibiotics I gave you didn’t put you into AFIB.” They did. I’m not going to list everything here. I hate to be that guy. But yes, even though I was a gym guy up until 40, it didn’t matter. I still ran a few miles a day a few times a week through my 30’s. I was in good shape. It comes at you from every direction.

I’ve had something almost every year since then. I’m 56 now. I’ve been sick for a couple of months at a time twice this year. Still going through it.

My advice? I enjoy life. I have that drink when I want it. I take that walk. I read that book to my kids. Damn the other priorities. As Keynes famously quipped, “In the long run, we’re all dead.”

]]> By: MrUNIVAC https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/life-at-the-inflection-point.html#comment-9864 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:58:24 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22777#comment-9864 I’ll be 43 soon. I’m very happy with my life even with the impending divorce, which I don’t view as a failure so much as a needed balancing of the scales. However, the reality isn’t anywhere close to what I imagined when I was young and impressionable. I wanted a lot more kids, for one, and it also would have been cool if the woman I married had been the one that she presented herself as when we were dating.

If I could give young men advice, it would be:

1) NEVER give in to a “marry me or else” ultimatum. If she pulls that, it’s a massive red flag and you should ditch her and don’t look back. If she really loves you, she’ll back off, but it’s up to you if you now want to take her back and be on edge for the rest of your relationship.
2) RUN, don’t walk, if her mother is her “best friend.” Every woman I knew like that was seriously messed up psychologically, and any conflict will end poorly for you because she will choose her “best friend” over you every time.
3) Also, take a good look at her father, since that’s her model for what a man should be and she’ll always be sizing you up with him in her mind (and sometimes to your face!). If you don’t want to be like him, then get out fast.
4) Listen to your family if you get along with them. They have your best interests at heart and even if they make you mad, they are coming at you from a place of love. I would have saved myself a lot of pain had I done that.

]]> By: Randale6 https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/life-at-the-inflection-point.html#comment-9863 Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:22:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22777#comment-9863 The way the West is going the key to finding a wife is to learn a new language. I will stand by this plan to break feminism should I ever be burdened with the weight of dictatorship… Unlimited Hawt Chick visas, they get six months a pop to shack up and they get no divorce rights.

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