JC, RW here,
I guess one of the points you were trying to make is that “winding too far” doesn’t happen to us old geezers anymore. That is, unless we’ve reached “ground zero” of geezerhood where we just can’t remember “anything” anymore. It’s probably because things like that happened to us so often when we were young geezers.
Lessons learned the hard way are usually lessons that are “never” forgotten. It’s the only logical conclusion to being young in the first place. Best let the young whipper-snappers learn on their own that little bit of sage wisdom you doled out for them though, cuz they never did like listening to “old geezers” give them advice.
Sorta like Mark Twain’s famous line:
“When I was 14, my father was so dumb I could hardly stand to have the old man around; But when I was 21 I was amazed at how much he’d learned in 7 years”.
Later, RW