The grain

With life experience comes knowledge and with that knowledge a certain fatigue and even cynicism. We see things coming a mile away because pattern recognition has become part of our arsenal. 

We encounter archetypes we know how to deal with much better and know if we need to avoid them. 

It's as if we want to conserve energy and save it for the best experiences knowing that the majority of our lives are behind us. It is here where wisdom serves its purpose. 

We no longer want to take on someone else's drama because we may have already done the hard work to get us to a balance point. No matter how imperfect it may be. 

We find small talk fatiguing and irrelevant because we want to get to some grain of relevant truth we have yet to discover about ourselves and our world before our time here is up.