Son,

Son, one day you will grow to be a man. You will know things you could have never imagined you would want to know.

You will learn the difference between want and need. You will ponder over what is want and what is need until the opportunity to select either has passed.

You will make mistakes and invite terrible people in your life. People whose personalities blossom into disfunction and error into which you can never intercede.

One day you will grasp the terror of the modern world. You will toil toward ends which are not your own. You will either covet or be coveted.

You will look over your shoulder for precedent and see the bridge to the past crumbling quickly.

And that is life. And though you are not eating grapes in a Mediterranean orgy you are also not getting scalped or dying of smallpox.

So cheer up.