The Antidote to the Peter Pan Problem?

As you get older and you get robbed of things, i wonder if it's the intimate relationships that you have that provides solace. One of the things that distresses me about the way that our world, the modern western world, is unfolding is that we act as if we're never going to be anyd than 35. And so they end e lan you ave appled in your forties or whatever, and it starts to get pretty ugly. I noticed something really interesting when i went to australia for book tor, and i'm going back there in a couple of weeks. There were people who didn't cross over into the blue opera like phil blank can't make it