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People Over 40 Reveal Which Physical Changes They Weren't Prepared For
Of course, there are several things about growing up and getting older that we don't take into account as kids.
First and foremost, the physical change our bodies endure.
Or worse yet, just how early in life our physical limitations hit us.
Redditor cardanolovelace was curious to learn about the ways people's bodies change after turning 40 that no one was prepared for, leading them to ask:
"Redditors over the age of 40, what's a physical change that you were not expecting?"
Didn't see that coming...
"Honestly, my eyesight tapped out overnight."
"One year I was fine, the next I was holding menus at full arm length like a grandpa."- StashBang
Not A Typo...
"The crepey skin on the top of my hands."- Lychanthropejumprope
Don't Sweat It...
"The sweating."
"Perimenopause is no joke."
"I've never been one to sweat a lot."
"Now I sweat just driving down the road."
"WTF?"- 321four5
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Time Heals Everything
"Recovery time - for anything."
"was expecting a change, not a fall off of a cliff."
"Hangovers last longer, waking up takes longer, exercise makes me sore for longer, injuries heal really slowly."- allineedisthischair
Keep That Body Moving
"How stiff I can get after not moving for a while."- hernondo
And Some People Worry About Losing Hair...
"Growing hair in places I have never had hair before."
"I thought I was done after puberty, but nope."
"Started growing hair in a couple of new places around 39-40 years old."- _aCloud_
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Thiner Isn't Always Better...
"As a woman I expected unwanted hair to start popping up in random places."
"What I didn’t expect was the hair on my head to get so thin."- jbarinsd
Patience Is A Virtue... But Not Everything Is Worth Your Time
"Mental is the biggest thing."
"Way less tolerant of bull sh*t."- J_does_it
You Are What You Eat... For Better Or Worse...
"Feels like as soon as I hit 40, a switch was flipped and now acid reflux is a regular problem."
"Also it gets harder and harder to keep the weight off that I lost a decade or so ago."- 0rganicMach1ne
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Ring Ring Ring...
"Tinnitus."
"I never heard about it until it was too late to do anything."- 2EscapedCapybaras
Talk About Bad Timing
"I was drunk peeing outside this past weekend and must have locked my knees too long."
"When I finally finished and went to turn around my damn right knee gave out."
"Went straight to the ground."
"That has literally never happened before."- Komabeard
Only The Beginning...
"Everything related to Perimenopause."
"It’s a stage in life no one really talks about, and the list of symptoms is about a mile long."- MrsSamT82
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As We Get Older, So Do They...
"The constant low energy yet restlessness when trying to sleep."
"Also I wasn't expecting how fast my parents' health would deteriorate."- Spiritual-Promise402
Next Time You Think About Skipping The Gym
"How much harder it is to lose weight."
"I’m fine now, but it was definitely harder to shed."- EddieEssen88
The Cherry On Top
"Cherry angiomas."- Accurate_Birthday278
"I’m 42."
"I’m noticing them all over! Derm said it was normal but damn they came out of nowhere."- TeslasAndComicbooks
Time creeps up on us faster than we expect, and try as we might to avoid it, we can't help but see and feel ourselves aging.
However, it's important to remember, like a bottle of wine or a work of art, the older things get, the more their value increases.
Making it all the more important to value the time we have on earth with each passing year.
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'Vanity Fair' Reporter Has Mic Drop Response After White House Claims Awkward Interview Was 'Out Of Context'
Wiles herself asserted that "significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story." Attorney General Pam Bondi also backed up Wiles, saying that "any attempt to divide this administration will fail. Any attempt to undermine and downplay President Trump’s monumental achievements will fail."
But Whipple was not having it, telling CNN that "everything is on tape":
“This was one of those cases as a reporter in your career when lightning strikes, and it was astonishing to me the extent to which she was unguarded and freewheeling on the record all the time.” ...
“Everything in the article was on the record. I recorded every interview. ... When I told her that 'Vanity Fair' had agreed to do a piece, to publish a piece, she [Wiles] was all in and enthusiastic about it. This was lightning striking. It’s amazing to me.”
“Everything was scrupulously in context. There isn’t a single fact or a single assertion that they’ve challenged in the piece. It really reminds me of the Watergate days when Ben Bradlee talked about non-denial denial. So this is the ultimate non-denial denial.”
He said that "every assertion that Susie made" is on tape," adding:
“And as you know, I interviewed the inner circle as well. I talked to JD Vance, I talked to Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and others. All of it taped, all of it on the record, and the giveaway is that they haven’t been able to challenge a single fact.”
You can hear what he said in the video below.
The profile takes an unusually intimate look at Wiles, a veteran political operative long known for projecting unwavering loyalty to her boss.
But in the feature, which drew on 11 interviews conducted over nearly a year with cooperation from the White House, Wiles was surprisingly more forthcoming than her public-facing role typically allows, speaking candidly about President Donald Trump, his inner circle, and the administration’s direction.
At moments, she appeared to concede discomfort with certain policies that have defined Trump’s second term—yes, really.
For instance, at one point, she admitted she advised Trump to be what Vanity Fair described as "more selective" with the decision to pardon January 6 defendants, including the "most violent offenders":
“I said, ‘I am on board with the people that were happenstancers or didn’t do anything violent. And we certainly know what everybody did because the FBI has done such an incredible job.’ In every case, of the ones he was looking at, in every case, they had already served more time than the sentencing guidelines would have suggested."
"So given that, I sort of got on board. ... There have been a couple of times where I’ve been outvoted. And if there’s a tie, he wins.”
She also expressed reservations about billionaire Elon Musk's influence in the decision to cut off foreign aid and conceded that Trump doesn't understand how these agencies work:
"When Elon said, ‘We’re doing this,’ he was already into it. And that’s probably because he knew it would be horrifying to others. But he decided that it was a better approach to shut it down, fire everybody, shut them out, and then go rebuild. Not the way I would do it.”
She even said Vice President JD Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade" and described Russell Vought, the mind behind Project 2025 who is currently the head of the Office of Management and Budget, as “a right-wing absolute zealot.”
And she also described a very heated clash with Trump at his Miami golf club during the 2016 election cycle—which is, again, a very surprising admission coming from one of the most high-profile White House officials:
“It was a horrific hour-plus at midnight. And I don’t think I’ve seen him that angry since. He was ranting and raving. And I didn’t know whether to argue back or whether to be stoic. What I really wanted to do was cry.”
“I finally said, ‘You know Mr. Trump, if you want somebody to set their hair on fire and be crazy, I’m not your girl. But if you want to win this state, I am. It’s your choice.’ ”
A displeased Wiles later complained about Vanity Fair's "hit piece" in a post on X:
"The article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story."
"I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team."
"The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade."
You can see her post below.
@SusieWiles/X
The idea that Wiles didn't know her conversations with Vanity Fair were on the record did not make sense given the scope of the final articles—and people called her out on this.
Notably, one anonymous official expressed concerns about Vanity Fair's article, saying "we're going to get fired for this."
Considering how much the Trump administration attacks the free press—Trump has, of course, branded it "the enemy of the people"—we bet internal conversations are brutal and that others within the inner circle are having serious reservations about Wiles' judgement.
People Describe The Most Insane Event They've Ever Witnessed
As a species, we tend to panic in the face of the unexpected.
Except for the true adrenaline junkies among us who, no surprise, often leave utter chaos in their wake.
Humans also see chaos in the natural world when things—animal, vegetable, mineral, or atmospheric—don't behave the way we've come to expect. In nature, it may be an expected occurrence or it may be a one off fluke.
To humans, it's utter insanity.
Reddit user ShadyLtd2006 asked:
"What’s the most insane event you’ve ever witnessed in person?"
On Set Accident
"Saw Michael Jackson's hair catch on fire when he was filming a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984."
~ OPMom21
"Do you know the fun fact that apparently it happened on the day that was the exact midpoint between his death and birth?"
~ namynuff
"From birth to this incident (August 29, 1958 to January 27, 1984) was a span of 9282 days. That's 25 years, 4 months, and 30 days."
"From this incident until his death (June 25, 2009) was 9281 days. That's 25 years, 4 months, and 29 days. I think the one day difference is due to an extra leap year in the first span."
"Either way, it's remarkably close to exactly halfway through his life."
~ KBHoleN1
Highlander?
"Saw two dudes fighting each other with real swords in an intersection in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2015."
"The intersection in front of the McDonald's that's across from the Taco Bell by the high school. The one by the stadiums and college kinda. Don't know if the Smoothie King is still there."
"They were shirtless and genuinely trying to hit each other until everyone started honking at them and then they ran off."
~ dumn_and_dunmer
Road Hazard
"One time I was driving down the 99 in Central California. It is two lanes in each direction with a fairly good-sized median, but no actual barrier."
"A mini van in front of me suddenly lost control, crossed the median, slammed head on into a dump truck, flipped over, and caught fire. Six teenaged kids in the car."
"We were able to get four of the teens out of the window on the rear hatch. The other two in the front seat were knocked out and we couldn't get to them."
"They died in a fire. It was horrible."
~ Feisty-Frame-1342
Bioluminescence
"Bioluminescent algae/plankton on a random beach in my suburban town in Massachusetts. I was at a party across the street from a beach and my friend's dog was playing in the water."
"All of a sudden my friend came running up to us saying the water was glowing. She had eaten mushrooms, so we all just brushed it off like 'sure I bet...' but she swore."
"So we went and looked and turns out she was right!"
"It was absolutely alien looking, and SO cool. I'll never forget that."
~ charlesmans0n
Right to Remain...
"In 1994, my buddy and I happened upon an accident. Dude flipped his car in the early morning hours, and all his stuff was piled into the hatchback area."
"We check on him, cops arrive, and idiot unlocks and opens the hatchback, and everything comes flowing out."
"And right in front of our eyes, and the cop's eyes, are these giant bags of cocaine."
~ FutureClubOwner
Tsunami
"Boxing Day, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I was 8. My uncle never made it."
"Was the scariest thing ever—felt so unreal."
"Eventually when I became an adult, I go back to Thailand every year to remember him and celebrate because the trip was something he was really excited for even though it ended in heartbreak."
~ Da_Bebe444
Bus Ride
"Was on a quiet double-decker bus in fairly rural Suffolk and a guy got on, paid, then said quite loudly, 'I'm gonna kill someone on this bus'."
"The driver immediately got out from behind the wheel and had the guy by the ear and dragged him off the bus. The guy just kind of collapsed in the driver's arms, and the driver laid him down fairly gently on the pavement."
"Got back on the bus without looking back and said, 'Sorry about that folks' and jumped behind the wheel, closed the doors, and drove away."
"Later that night on the news, the guy had died there and then."
"Police interviewed me later, but would not say anything. I'd seen the same driver lots of times after, so guess he was cleared of whatever. We all saw he didn't hurt him aside from an ear pull, so he must have been already injured or OD'd."
~ supperfash
Pandemic
"The day the pandemic flipped the world upside down."
"I found myself at baggage claim inside one of the world's busiest and largest airports on Thursday, March 12th, 2020. Literally like a scene out of 'Titanic' or that 'World War Z' movie."
"TV's blaring about stacked corpses in China, and a 'mystery virus' circulating in Seattle and Italy. Half the airport was wearing masks, half weren't. The air was buzzing yet thick like molasses, like something heavy and ominous was just smoldering in the very air itself."
"Several weeks later, with my own eyeballs, I witnessed two women physically fight each other over a package of Charmin toilet paper—at Target, no less. Police were called, and both women were hauled off in cuffs."
~ disjointed_chameleon
Flash Mob
"In 2016, I was in a self-checkout lane in Walmart around 10pm when a flash mob came in dressed in those big crying baby masks, horse heads, and some were Trump, Hillary, and Obama. They were blasting a song off one phone and sucked at dancing."
"They basically just jumped around or twerked."
"I and like 5 other people just stood there and stared because if you tried to leave, they’d dance towards you, and the other exit was locked. They did have to stop after a few minutes."
"As I left, a loud man on a hoverboard was rolling inside with his phone call on speaker. I like to imagine he was the dancer's manager."
~ cherryshape
Evasive Maneuver
"Driving home from Cleveland one morning after a doctor's appointment, it was raining, tons of traffic, three lanes each side with a concrete barrier in the middle. Everyone's moving along at relatively the same speed."
"Suddenly a car from the far right lane about two-three cars ahead of me crosses both left lanes, hits the barrier, and bounces back across the lanes to side of the road."
"He managed to not hit a single other car."
~ uumbre0n
Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup
"Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup."
"If you don't like snakes, it's not for you."
"I do not like snakes. It was not for me."
"There used to be one every year close to where I live. I got in free cause my dad worked security (constables office)."
"Anyways, they had a booth with this big sign that said 'pet a rattlesnake'. I remember parents walking their kids up saying 'oh go ahead little Timmy, just pet the damn rattlesnake'. There's no way I'd let my kid do that."
"The only reason I went in the first place was to see people get bit. Annnnnd, they did."
~ papawam
"F*ck Sweetwater and their snake roundup. Now the rattlers that are left are less inclined to give a warning because these stupid f*cks killed all the ones that rattle."
"Speedy evolution, driven by idiots that have no right to be interfering in nature like that."
~ MildlyAnnoyedMother
Boston Marathon Bombings
"2013 Boston Marathon bombings. I was working as an ESL teacher at the time not far from the finish line."
"On Patriots Day/Marathon Monday, the school generally had a half day's worth of classes followed by some cultural excursions with the teachers taking their classes to explore the area around Fenway Park for the annual Red Sox game that starts in the morning."
"Normally, we would have lunch with the students after the game, followed by going to the area around the Boston Public Library where the finish line is. For some reason that year, we decided to skip lunch and just go right to the BPL."
"We were right in the area where one of the bombs would later go off for a total of about 45 minutes before calling it a day and dismissing the students. One of the other teachers and I had just started walking away, literally about 3-5 minutes, when we heard two loud explosions."
"We honestly didn't think anything of it at first, thinking they were cannons or something for the reenactments that can sometimes accompany Patriots Day events. It wasn't until after 30 seconds or so when we saw and could hear people running and screaming that we figured out something was wrong."
"So we went back to check on our students, but couldn't locate any of them."
"I barely slept that night worried that one of my students might have been a victim. Luckily, everyone ended up being fine other than one student from Chile who suffered from temporary hearing loss for a week or so."
~ quiksilver123
Full Moon
"I was part of the biggest mooning in cinema history."
"My arse is immortalised in the movie 'Braveheart'."
~ Socks-and-Jocks
Different Kind Of Full Moon
"When I was 8, my uncle flew me in his little Cessna (I think) to a family reunion in northern Alberta on a farm."
"I remember going over a hill and as we crested it, I saw the moon rising. It was a blood red harvest moon and I swear it filled the sky."
"It’s been 40 years and I still remember how gorgeous that was. Awe inspiring!"
~ gdtestqueen
What moments of chaos have you experienced firsthand?
