Passing Grade

The unexamined life is not worth living,
as Socrates quite famously proclaimed.
So though the years have been less than forgiving,
decided to examine it, reframed.

"But wait!", I hear, "It's surely way too early.
You're barely past the midpoint, as it were,
and neither too irascible nor surly.
You'd better wait until there's a there, there."

As to the surly, I would beg to differ,
though I do try to nip it at the source.
My joints ache when it rains, and plenty stiffer
than back when Socrates was just a course.

That Socrates, I am a huge supporter.
Examined it.  Appears to be in order.