I can imagine my mood in 2008, but glad to find this snippet in my old email

Once there was a boy, always too eager to be a man

As the years passed, there was a man who longed to be a boy

Now, the man is the man and the boy is the boy

All because the man has realized something.

Let the boy not realize the same thing,

Lest there will only be a man without the innocence of the boy.