The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
What better reward than to see others excited by your work?
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'
But as you say in English, c'est la vie!
Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.
I think it is better for societies if no one dominates forever.
All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.
I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.