We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine feeling I had the truth and the light and the key but a lot of it was purely hell.