The complexities of life further accelerate, and—and this is worrisome—we begin to recognize that we can no longer fob off our flaws and failures as youthfulness and inexperience. We are, as they say, grown-up. We are expected to handle the bumps and bruises of life with an unshakable courage. Panic and fear are for younger (and older?) people. But in one’s forties, the expectation is that one is solid.
