how not to have random neck pains

Not be getting older? I don’t know. Sometimes I sleep on my pillow incorrectly and my neck hurts for a week.

Accept the random pains as part of getting older and just be grateful I’m alive? I guess.

Maybe work on my neck muscles and upper back more at the gym? Lift more weights? Strength training seems to be the number one most recommended thing right now for getting older. But you have to start doing it when you’re younger? If you wait too long then it all deteriorates. Your muscle mass goes away and never comes back? So I need to build up a ton of muscle mass because I’m going to lose it one day and the more I have the longer it will take to go away and therefore my body won’t start to really suck until later?

I’ve tried neck circles. I’ve tried arm and shoulder stretches.

I’ve tried ibuprofen.
I’ve tried coffee and complaining.

I’ve tried adding an extra pillow. I’ve tried sleeping on my back.

I’ve tried not slouching when I read at night.
I’ve tried getting up from my desk more often.

I’ve tried more lumbar support in the car, at least on the car that has that adjustment.

Maybe it’s cancer somehow?

Which somehow brings me back to acceptance?