The world offers so much more than we can possibly hope to learn. But maybe that's a good thing.

One of my own great regrets is that I could have accomplished so much more, learned so much more than I did.
Now that I've retired, I haven't done any of the things I promised myself I'd do if I had the time. I never wrote that novel, or learned a musical instrument, or picked up a foreign language, or read all those books I never got around to reading (including my old textbooks, which I now look through and they seem impenetrable, like they are written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. I wasted most of my life, never got really good at anything, I've always been a dilettante--easily bored, always lazy, I never stuck to anything long enough to get really good at it. Even the experience I gathered in my career is now all obsolete--professionally useless. The industry and technology I worked in for so long didn't stop when I did.

This is why I admire people like Prince so much. Its not even because I particularly care for his music. My own tastes do not run to pop, funk, soul, R&B etc, they are more into classic, acid and hard rock and blues. But I have profound admiration for his drive and his expertise, his sheer competence. That solo he performed in that clip I linked to was not even in his style, but it clearly demonstrated he could hit it out of the park even when it was not really his best pitch. He shredded that riff, and totally eclipsed a set of genuine rock heavyweights who just barely backed him up. And it wasn't even what he does best. He just had the chops to do it, without even breaking a sweat.

You gotta hand it to the dude That's class.