You're fat, you're pushing forty, and faced with the realization that the boy who once dreamed of becoming an astronaut is no more. A man has taken his place, and rather than sitting in the cockpit of a capsule, awaiting the thrust of booster rockets that will wrestle him from the grasp of Earth's gravity, he's instead wrestling in the tight grip of an armchair that once fit comfortably, many beers ago. However poorly you fared in the game of life, remember, everyone—even truly worthy people who managed to achieve something significant in life—will have to face this change at some point.