the travails of growing older are different than I thought

I don't know what it is about life, but I feel like I've gotten more high strung and anxious as I've gotten older. More things worry me than they used to, and they worry me more than they used to. I've joked before that meditation is nothing more than regulated, focused breathing...but maybe it would help. Beats self-medication via alcohol, anyway. I still retain some common sense.

Life isn't bad. Just prone to stress, apparently. These are things to not just think about but work on, and I don't have to wait until the new year to do so.