When you are young you magnify everything that happens to you because that's just the way it is. What can be more important than your problems your angst your melodramas? Then age creeps up on you and with cackling pleasure, winds its gnarly arms around you. Suddenly you're old and no matter how unready you are, you're forced to face grown-up problems. The insidious kind that threatens to overwhelm and all you want to do is squash them and make them as small as possible before they eat your insides.