I guess as I age I'll have to watch out for the buffalo trying to run me over now! lol

Or maybe a moose, I hear you have a lot of that lurking in the woods especially in the area where there are forest or houses in the suburbs.
I think it's in the way of life of people to rise and fall, and sometimes it's painful to fall in ways you may not want or control. It's often disappointing when you have no cushion too. Sometimes it's even shameful to be once powerful and resourceful, but later weak and lonely.