My mortality! Hit 45 this year and it kinda feels like it's all downhill from here.
Health is ok but that seems tenuous as I'm pretty out of shape so I feel like I'm not "set up" yet to be a healthy older person. When something does go wrong I'm not sure if I should worry about getting it treated or just live with it.
It seems futile to learn new skills and such since I'm not sure about the payoff (ROI).
Family/kids/job/money are all pretty great so I don't have anything to complain about, but I'm still kind of feeling like I'm about to crest the hill of life and want to ensure I'm making the best of it and prepared for my eventual demise.
I don't want to die! I really like being alive and kind of wish I had immortality (with a safety kill switch of course so I don't have to endure the heat-death of the universe or get stuck inside a star somewhere lol)
This is why I almost exclusively listen to podcasts that are scripted, like casefile, freakonomics, this American life, radio lab, wait wait don't tell me, etc.
Before this, all too often I would find myself listening to people aimlessly chatting about what they had for breakfast and such, and I realized those that scripted their episodes made for a tremendously better listening experience.
I see you excluded the guy across the street singing in his loud PA system for tips, as well as his 800 friends doing the same thing within a 1 mile radius.
(Sorry couldn't help it. Just visited NOLA and it was cool, but I'll be happy if I never have to hear another 11-year-old drumming as loud as he can on a Home Depot bucket.)
In rural Wyoming and Utah, the interstate highway speed limit is 80mph, which is around 130 km/h. Most people regularly do 85, if not 95 mph (145 km/h).
This -- in Denver on I-25, the speed limit is 55 mph, but if you stay below that you're taking your life into your hands because everyone will be whipping by you at least 10 (and often 20) mph faster. Honestly, speed up a bit and it feels safer because there isn't such a speed differential between you and everyone else.
Happening to me as well. Had to come to this post with a browser to see comments.