...that there are times to let down your hair and do a bit of over indulgence and then there is the time to get focused. Now is the time to get focused which is why I now have a gym membership.

...that looking back fondly at your younger days is not the same as fetishizing about how crappy it is to not be the person you used to be.

...that it often takes a minor catastrophe to remind you how much better you are than were.

...that an absence of understanding of the very definition that anchors your argument sort of invalidates every aspect of your point.

...that the fixation on acquiring and having stuff obfuscates the reality that we generally don’t need most of it.