>"Cheer up. Spend.......a little more time watching kids play in the park."

My kids both moved out. It is so.......peaceful now........;~)
Crying, demanding, screaming kids are exactly where they belong ......with their parents!
I appreciate othere things these days .......plants flowering, sunsets, and people who have the courage to stand up for their convictions.

>" If I didn't have my kids for perspective, who knows what kind of sour pessimist I might have wound up as?"

Ha ha ha ha.........you think you're NOT a "sour pessimist?
ROTFLMAO!

>*"On the bright side, as we move out into the Solar System there will be no "natives" to suffer for our entry into new environments."

They're out there allright, and I doubt they'll want us to take our war-like nature with us.
Besides, their guns are bigger than ours.......;~)