Your comments here alone demonstrate your wisdom, Jake.  And they also show your positive and sensitive and insightful view of life and the world.  Exactly the opposite of your counterpart!  It is easy to pick your kind out on these threads because you all demonstrate the same qualities.  I am thinking of (and I apologize if I have the age brackets wrong) AnonAJ, Joan K, John David, perhaps Caiside (?), and perhaps Mike AA (?) and all those I am leaving out because I am over tired right now.  Just as we can easily see who are the ones consumed with the ebb of life and the loss of personal intimacy - like Tridentinus, Marty E, TCPete, and so on.  We each bring to our comments, as we do to all other activities in our lives, the perspectives born of our lives to date.  The trick of a growing personhood is that some - but not all, obviously - can change and adapt and find the joy in being a part of life, rather then being angry at the loss of some parts of it - like youth.