It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.