The older I get, the less I feel hope for the future - or to be more accurate, the less the future gives me hope. That's a subtle difference in perspective, the former is forward looking, whereas the latter leaves open the possibility that hope might still survive but it might not lie in the future.
I turned 38 today and I suppose this is the point where it would be acceptable to have a mid-life crisis, the trouble is I'm a millennial and our entire lives have been marked by crisis after crisis, to the point where the idea of marking your progress through life with just one in particular seems ridiculous. I've lost count of how many "once-in-a-lifetime" events I have witnessed, and there doesn't seem to be any end in sight on that front.