I like how you phrased that - "I've always enjoyed people". It's a marker of a good life. Enjoying being around people and learning from them.

As for the rest, 100%. Yeah. It's hard, I imagine. The older we get, the less inclined we become to have to start all over again, so there's great courage too to realizing you're no longer growing at the same rate. And it seems to me, from what I know of you, you're still a very romantic person in the way you carry yourself. Cause I don't think that's just pertaining to love or romantic relationships, I think it's a way of seeing the world and interacting with interest, as if it's a larger thing you're part of and you can move towards better. Which you seem to do. :)