Thank you, for your sensitivity, @lazarus-wist. Yes, hardening, or becoming bitter, might be the only failure in life... Success I define, to myself, as deepening our appetite while refining our hunger.

<p dir="auto">Every stage of life brings with it gifts, if we gracefully surrender those of the past stages. <p dir="auto">Really grateful to hear you thought poem did some justice to these intangible realities. <code>_/|\_