It's an old saw, but "It's too bad youth is wasted on the young." Yea, verily!!

'Twould indeed be nice to be as strong and vigorous as I used to be (not that I'm totally enfeebled now). But there are a lot of advantages to having some mileage on the clock. For example, when I first got into folk music I was pretty young. I learned a lot of songs fairly fast. Now that I've attained the exalted (even if somewhat humbling) state of geezerhood, I actually understand what most of the songs are all about.

I never did think the sun shone out of my ass. I had two sisters, one older and one younger, to assure me that wasn't the case.

Don Firth