Men in your 50s or older, what did you say “never” to when you were younger but changed your mind later on?

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Men in your 50s or older, what did you say “never” to when you were younger but changed your mind later on?

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  2. SuperUnintelligent Avatar

    Paying for therapy, sleeping before 10 pm, saying no to more stressful job with significantly more pay.

  3. activeseven Avatar

    I said I would never get married. Then I met my wife.

  4. Beneficial_Jacket962 Avatar

    Having an hourly wage job

  5. fattynerd Avatar

    Getting married again

  6. Electric_Amish Avatar

    Nothing that I recall

  7. Schickie Avatar

    Antidepressants.

  8. gamerdudeNYC Avatar

    Self help or improvement books and programs. Figures “fuck all that crap they’re just ass holes trying to make money off stupid weak minded people, I got it all figured out”

    Had to attend a week long program for work that was super expensive that comes with a certificate… I figured the company was paying for the course, the flight, hotel, high end restaurants every night and I’ll have a fancy certificate to slap on my resume when I ditch this company and go to the next job. Why not try and keep an open mind this time? Maybe it’ll make things more interesting so I won’t die of boredom while I go through the motions.

    I’m glad I did, the course itself wasn’t life changing but I did take pieces away from it that I felt improved my acuity in my field so I figured why not look up some books to read. Last book I read was Harry Potter 20 years ago so I figured actually reading a book, from start to finish, in that order, would give me a slight feeling of accomplishment.

    So I read a few and and felt a wave of realization, that it wasn’t just all bullshit, that it wasn’t just publishers trying to make cash off idiots. I knew I “didn’t have life fully figured out” but I felt like I was doing just fine so fuck self help, I’ll stay on the current course.

    Now, I wish I would’ve read these books and adopted this mindset back in college or even high school, wish someone would’ve sat me down and told me “keep an open mind and read the damn books, you spend five hours a day playing video games you can read a fucking book”.

  9. HoneybucketDJ Avatar

    Give you up

    Let you down

  10. Captain_slowish Avatar

    Tattoos and embracing medication. In my younger days I would pretty much only take medication/prescriptions only when absolutely necessary.

  11. pezdspencer1974 Avatar

    Eating ass and therapy. In that order

  12. Best-Theory-330 Avatar

    Therapy, not worrying about other’s opinions, sobriety

  13. GotWheaten Avatar

    Asparagus and broccoli

  14. DKM_Eby Avatar

    I’m close (41m, canadian) but can I answer because I have a solid one?

    I was very anti marijuana. I don’t smoke but I am much more relaxed on all things cannabis and CBD now.

  15. ever-inquisitive Avatar

    -Diet Coke

    -Marijuana (edible only)

    -Exercise Hard Daily

    -Eating Healthy

    -Not working hard every day, being intentionally lazy and wasting time routinely fiddling with meaningless things.

  16. no-long-boards Avatar

    Anal, jogging, owning more than one car.