Yes Mac, a man of your advanced years should have developed a thicker skin and brushed it off. It's happened to me ( particularly with someone I've known for a long time) . I usually say 'ok i'll talk to myself then, followed by 'bye' and I find someone else to share my erudite wit and Wildian repartee with.
Mac, all your posts seem to revolve around age and you feeling old. Don't tell me you have succumbed to the beige/grey uniform of the half dead as well please. We are. I think, about the same age (62). Do I feel old no. Does age bring regrets. Yes. S##t happens and the older you are more S##t has piled up for you to deal with and ruminate about. Fact.

I had a big surgery recently that left me shuffling along like an old man and feeling quite vulnerable. I now know what it feels like to feel old out on the streets and it's not nice. I'm gradually getting back to how I was though a hand size piece of my thigh on my head ain't going anywhere soon. But i don't feel old . If i'm still around in 20 years time ask me again. Stop overthinking bro. Get out and do s##t man. YOLO. Peace