I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
I'd learned my lesson.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.