As you get older, the world washes you clean of your idealism. The liberal part in you becomes conservative. The optimism in you gets baked in the ovens of pessimism. You become more of a realist and a pragmatist.

You realize that what people say is not what they do. You learn this the hard way. You learn that the world is all about acting up, keeping face in public.

You learn in private that all lodges are always full. You learn that people act like they're not having sex but they are having it day and night. You learn that morals are about perception.

You realize the hard reality that in private, people are cheats, corrupt, murderers,...