Less

Perhaps as I got older I began to expect less, less on all levels.  Less fun, less care, less partying, less family, less life remaining.  The last one is just a sum but there seems to be no reason why I should have less fun, other than I am not putting enough effort into making fun.  Time to make some fun happen.  Even if other people about me are not. 

When I think about my younger days I cannot say I did anything particularly thoroughly.  I can say for sure, yes, at some points I threw myself into the activity and sodnthe consequences but the thing I remember most from my younger days was the rest of the time when I was dithering, dithering and pretending I was cool, dithering, pretending I was cool and dreaming of being fanciable. 

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