I suppose we have to reduce our expectations. I'm no mathematician, but I understand the Law of Diminishing Returns and I see that life slips past the point of the curve where things are going to get better.
We have to find a way to live with the fact that the best is not yet to come - it has already been and gone. Hope to goodness we enjoyed it at the time, even if we didn't recognise it for what it was.
One way to manage down the hopes, but without spending the next 25 years sunk in grey despair and disappointment, might be to recognise that perhaps the very best times passed unacknowledged, but there are still good times ahead. We will appreciate smaller joys much more than we did the greater ones, as our wisdom - albeit acquired too late - has shown us that these moments need to be savoured and cherished.
Perhaps the art is to find happiness in the small details?
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