It starts with basketball and music. Quickly shifts to MUSIC and basketball. I got good at hitting stuff (marginally good). on my 400+ years in this human suit, on this ridiculous planet, trying and succeeding and failing (spectacularly at times), I know this: there is comedy, there is tragedy, there is anxiety, there is utopia, there is panic, there is calm. there is regret, there is satisfaction. Thru all this and more, other humans weave in and out of your life. Most you can do without. Worse still, quality, interesting, inspirational humans usually feel the same way about you. Don't think you don't need a partner. Another human that causes you to try and be 'better', that calls bullshit on all your bullshit, and still can make you thrilled to heart-soaring heights, is everything.
Remember this: those that boast about, or seem to posess a facility with mastering the illusion of control over all these variables, they are almost always full of shit, full of doubt, full of self-loathing and are generally narcisssists and sociopaths with more/better masks than you. Show all of them civility and generosity of spirit. Until they don't value it. Then fuck'm.
Get over it.