I’m in my later years and still clucky. I love kids/babies and the creation of them.
We take so much for granted, but we are literally (perhaps) the only planet in an entire universe that has life, and we have a dominant species (perhaps briefly dominant) who make babies via a mechanism that they obsess over.
I’m still clucky but I am snipped and that ship as sailed. But now I am a granddad, and living with my grandson, and it is glorious. The regular attributes apply. I get to be part of his life, spend time with him, delight in his curiosity, and have zero responsibility or effort. Fuck retirement, this is the goal in life, being an interactive grandparent and hopefully staying alive long enough to see what they become.