I had never heard of John Hively  before.  But I was looking for a quote about aging and found this: “It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up”        Wow... I'd not heard this one bit of my psyche put so succinctly before- but thank you Mr. Hively.   I turned 40 last year.  That sentence does not cause me any great emotions except to wonder the same thing I have told folks for pretty much the last twenty years.   "I can't believe that the world has allowed me to enter the adult workspace..."   From the moment I felt the freedom of not living under parental control and being loose in the world, I have hardly felt a day like I belonged in it.   This isn't to say I have not learned your rules and adapted to how to "be an adult." I never felt like Peter Pan and wanted to stay young, but I always felt like I had pulled something over on the rest of the world. Like a kid who stayed up too late for the first time. That realization that I could...