age is your right, you have every right to be the age you have reached
be it three years or ninety three years
entitled to smear chocolate everywhere, or to take things slow
and if you are taking things slow its a good bet you have lived the chocolate smeared everywhere years.
The older you get in theory the more you understand the young
its one of the great secrets of getting old, you have to get old to know it, and be humble enough to have patience, and that also comes with experience, if you have practised it.