I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.