RE: Trust your 16-year-old self to map you for life?

I think I knew a version that says give me the child until he's 7 and he's mine for life. I don't think you come out the man at 7 (or the woman).

So I've mellowed a lot over the years.

I think that's supposed to happen. To balance out the idealism and propensity to perfectionism. But not lose it.