It is the age where responsibility and duty catches up with you. You carry on a burden so that the people you love do not have to. It is a run, and you know you want to run light. But you pick up weights along the way, things that will slow you down. You pick up stones so that the people you love will not trip and fall. You clear the way so that their run will be easy. You worry that the weight will be too much. You worry that you may not get to the end point. But you cannot falter. If you fall they will fall.

You become stronger for them.