As I've grown older I've gotten more content, indeed more tranquil.

I would like to say that this is a result of greater wisdom, but to some extent it's been forced upon me through COVID-19 restrictions.

"those who, as Sallust puts it, "hearken to their bellies," should be numbered among the animals, and not among men; and certain men, indeed, should be numbered, not even among the animals, but among the dead." Seneca Letter 60