Life is wonderful - the second time around. It's a spiral[0], never the same twice, but each time with more under-belt-experience to enhance and deepen the next iteration.
[0] _The New College Physics: A Spiral Approach_ Albert V. Baez, father of three singing sisters
This brings to mind a crucial and often missed distinction between instruction and education, and a misapprehension about "growing up".
Ideally, growing up is the process of adding understanding and meaning to what's already there, and concatenating additional experience so that the whole continues to be more than the sum of the parts.
"You can't go home again."--I read that somewhere.....
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