There's no being long in the tooth now. Whatever the age, circumstances have to be arranged. Whether it means babying them for the time being.
Perhaps had dug this deep hole all by your lonesome. Or perhaps, it's a systematic thing where it naturally caused to be in the deep valleys.
Those gaps always get bigger when to ignore them. And they become unfixable by the time to realise. Don't allow those gaps in life get beyond repair.
If in doubt, to look at is causing a head scratching moment, only it seems like food. Unfortunately, it's just one of those things.
A thimble of thought that brings more to test the wits than commonly known. These thoughts become to test theory into method. And is where others may get hurt.
In the forest; thinking on the feet doesn't necessarily mean at haste. Can tippy toe like a gentle ballerina while thinking. The purpose is to think to coincide with the circumstances that happen around. When the path requires to change in a different direction. And make an alternative decision. Done so in line with now.
St. Matthew Ch.5:V.46 " - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?"
