[sjellen]

Wait until you get to 40 and you've seen enough beginnings, middles and ends of things that you have a greater understanding of how the world around you isn't forged in bedrock but is in a constant state of change. How you've been lead around by Madison Ave in a fear of missing out. There is a joy of missing out that come in at middle age. You can honestly say to yourself that something isn't worth wasting your time on. Not out of a close-mindedness but because you been to those dungeons and they have been picked clean.

[iancmceachern]

Well put. I love the phrase "you've been to those dungeons and they have been picked clean." And its unique to each person, it's like the dungeon gets picked clean for you or me, but may still offer value to someone going there for the first time.

I think the key is parsing throught it and figuring out which things are dungeons and which things are just me being jaded and cynical, and pushing back in myself for the latter.