"If I laugh at any mortal thing, tis that I may not weep."......George Gordon(Lord Byron)

While we can discuss our early idealism and naivete and intellectualize about the follies of youth, the truth is down a few more tiers in our souls. We laugh off and make fun of those things associated with that time to cover our sadness and sorrow over our loss of innocence which we can never recover.

Just my 2 cents............

Spaw