This.
I'm 37, never had a concussion, and I'll tell you right now--I don't believe in CTE.
Some coli breh gonna hit me with the

, and I get it--I'm just saying this:
You hit a stage in your 30s where you wake up one morning and you're like

I'm mortal brehs.
There's no going backwards.
There's no getting younger.
The celebrities you grew up listening to/watching? They're even older. And the kids don't like em or care who they are.
You start looking at shyt and being like
"oh, damn, that was how many years ago? feels like yesterday though."
When you're 25, you think--10 years ago, I was 15, I was a totally different person.
When you're 35, you think--10 years ago, I was 25, and I was grown up, so all that's changed in 10 years is just me getting older: slower, tighter, sorer, you name it.
shyt's fukking wild.
My job though? It has nothing to do with my age. Matter of fact--it gets better as I get older. More money, easier, more pension. It's like a stock that just points up.

Some of, shyt probably all of you youngsters, are gonna read this and not understand it, but you will some day.
And old heads will read it and be like, talk to me when you hit 50.
But the point is--pro athletes get all this shyt x100.
They get older and slower just like me and you, but they do it on national tv with people saying they "lost a step."
Their job doesn't keep getting better, it straight up fires them.
Celebs they grew up liking and admiring? THEY ARE THAT CELEB, in their mind. Now all of a sudden, the world doesn't really care about THEM like that anymore.
It's just the natural aging process, played out in front of the entire country.
So yeah, that CTE shyt? I don't believe it. These guys drink and go crazy just the same as someone sitting at the bar in some hole in the wall joint reliving his glory days every night.
It's not cause they got tackled when they were 21, it's cause they can't get paid to tackle anymore at 35.