The outside-inside alignment question is really thought-provoking — I agree that it's a deep impulse, and that we convey information to others (consciously and unconsciously), but it's also inherently incomplete, and it's also fruitful to think about the various cases where that alignment is relatively tight vs. loose, both due to conscious choices and external circumstances.
Also, next time we intersect, we should perhaps talk spine stuff.
It's important not to over-index on temporary infirmity!
At any age, a disc injury makes you feel ancient, but recovering from a disc injury makes you suddenly feel incredibly young and mobile again. I had a disc injury at age 20, and had over a year of shambling along in mild pain and feeling like shit - I even broke off contact with girls who liked me because I felt like such a failure of a man. But I felt amazing and "young again" after my full recovery at age 21/22.
My mum had a really bad back injury in her late 40s - she was in agony, and basically bedridden for two years while we were teenagers, and spent months in hospital. A few years after she recovered (through an operation) she took up rock climbing and intense gym exercise (spinning, intense dance classes etc.), and she has been in great shape up to her early 70s (she's now struggling a bit, but is still dancing and rock-climbing almost every day).
Of course, don't over-index on this anecdata either...
" An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress..."
— Yeats
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing...
Oh, man – I hope you feel much better soon, Eneasz.
The outside-inside alignment question is really thought-provoking — I agree that it's a deep impulse, and that we convey information to others (consciously and unconsciously), but it's also inherently incomplete, and it's also fruitful to think about the various cases where that alignment is relatively tight vs. loose, both due to conscious choices and external circumstances.
Also, next time we intersect, we should perhaps talk spine stuff.
It's important not to over-index on temporary infirmity!
At any age, a disc injury makes you feel ancient, but recovering from a disc injury makes you suddenly feel incredibly young and mobile again. I had a disc injury at age 20, and had over a year of shambling along in mild pain and feeling like shit - I even broke off contact with girls who liked me because I felt like such a failure of a man. But I felt amazing and "young again" after my full recovery at age 21/22.
My mum had a really bad back injury in her late 40s - she was in agony, and basically bedridden for two years while we were teenagers, and spent months in hospital. A few years after she recovered (through an operation) she took up rock climbing and intense gym exercise (spinning, intense dance classes etc.), and she has been in great shape up to her early 70s (she's now struggling a bit, but is still dancing and rock-climbing almost every day).
Of course, don't over-index on this anecdata either...