No it's not depressing.
As Talk Talk once sang, "life's what you make it".
Responsibilities and circumstances come and go, it's down to the individual on how they want to live their life.
Personally, it's down to values and what I'd like to leave, legacy wise, coupled with taking the opportunities and making the best of things. Personal satisfaction.
That means, keeping a close eye and connection with what's going in the world, trends, the lot. You have to move with the times, keep the mind fresh, thinking, challenging. Music is my "connection" to what's new, what's old, what's changing, what's good, what's bad, what's indifferent. From that, all sorts of things spin and connect; language, the "yoof of today", clothes, arts, media, entertainment, life, love and the universe.
I'd rather have an idea of what's going on that not; I certainly don't want to be like the fuddy twat on BBC news this morning who pronounced YOLO as "yo-low". At the same time, I'm not going to be one of those try-hard 40/50 something's trying to act 21.
And before anyone says, yeah well, you under 40 (37) and don't have kids, that maybe true but keeping true to yourself is vitally important. Sure, if I'm lucky enough to have a papoy then naturally priorities shift, but again, I'd like to be "me" when they grow up, not some beat-down Dad who's tired of life. What sort of impression would that give? It helps that my old man has that "young at heart" aspect, with a balance of realism - I mean we're currently discussing Chase and Status and Flying Louts' latest release and he's 68 this October.
What does all this mean? Not much, just enjoy life and make it count. And Radio 1 has been shit for years, even the kids rarely listen to it these days. It's all about Radio 2, 6, the multitude of internet specialist stations and streaming services