Does life just get harder & more complicated as you grow older?

I guess your life changes and turns more complicated, you get more responsibilities- work, family, children, .. but at the same time we grow, we mature and we learn to deal better under pressure.. we figure out not to stress so much over the little things and we focus more on what's truly important..

The way we think gets easier, we understand ourselves better.. we feel better about ourselves, but we have more responsibilities and more people to care about..

Not necessarily. I think it's different for everyone and it changes all the time. You may simplify your life or make it more complicated at any point in your life. So I would say that the feeling of life being harder and more complicated comes and goes through out our lives and that we have the option of finding solutions to our problems and taking action in our lives to make things better. To have a simpler and easier life. Good luck.

When you learn your mortality. Waking up in the middle of the night with a strange pain,

When you check and realize you are far short of what you need in retirement savings and there's not enough time to fix it - when "work until you die" becomes more a reality.

When you spend 30 years developing a phenomenal skillset, and the world changes, no-one wants your skills.

When you find you are married to someone you despise.

There are some reasons.

Personally, I say fukkit & cuddle up next to my GF. I might be 50yo. But life is gooooodddddd !

It's not that life gets more complicated...........it's always complicated........it's just as you get older.............you get better at seeing all the shades of grey and different levels........

whereas, when you are younger..........hey, I was young once too, and we're full of piss and vinegar,. as my grandma use to say.........and we think we know it all, and have it all figured out........and there's only black and white and right and wrong.

It's NEVER really that easy.........and as we get older.........we understand that more.

As we have kids.......we understand why our parents wouldn't let us travel into the city by ourselves at 12.......even though we THOUGHT we were all grown up.

They didn't say NO to be mean d*ckheads..........they said No, because they loved us, and knew the truth about what could REALLY happen.

You understand more the sacrifices these people made for you..........the hardships........the bills.....

it's not any more or less complicated...........but what changes is YOUR perspective.

With age , comes finer levels of wisdom and understanding. Wiseness. And you realize not every problem,---- in fact, hardly ANY problem-.........is really just black and white.

You learn all those things that you were actually shielded from----so you wouldn't have to worry.......and then you understand your parents wrinkles and gray hair-

to some degree it does but much becomes easier because we do not have to believe all the lies that society tells us how we should feel when we are young and trying to impress the other teens. it means nothing the things we worried about. it was just plain silly stuff.

but being truthful counts a hundred times over. it is so hard to be friends with those who think nothing of being a liar.

all goes down hill from there when people do not want to be honest to us.

Yes I would say it does because people expect you to do/say things in an adult way also when/if someone you know dies than it makes life difficult also looking for a job is hard at the moment and so is buying or selling a house.

I don't think "we" complicate things. I think it's that as we get older, we realize how complicated things really are. There are ways to avoid that complication, but most people choose not to. We live in a high-pressure society based on instant gratification, "image", and "stuff". Simplify, man.

In your 20's you worry about it getting harder and more complicated

and ignore the advice of older people, thinking ''What do they know?''.

In your 30's you actually make it harder and more complicated for yourself.

In your 40's life actually begins (as the saying goes) and it starts getting easier.

In your 50's you stop giving a f* about what other people think about you.

You really start to enjoy your life and wish that you'd listened in your 20's

to the person in their 50's telling you what was really important in life ..

but when you try to explain that to someone in their 20's they say ''What do you know?'' .. and then give you a thumb down.

EDIT .. there you are .. a thumb down

(from someone young because someone old would know that I speak the truth)

Life is a hell when kids are younger these days.School students have school as well as classes too much workload to study and peer pressure to score more,no time for proper food.Everything feels like hell to them.Those who work they are atleast matured enough and can handle things better,now this is a contradition.

In my opinion, I think it gets harder as you grow older but your ability to handle things makes life easier to move forward