Chiming in with more praise for the radio analogy - and the parakeet dreaming of a Mars mission, too!

I was a bit flip in my first response, but I do find it a sad circumstance, and now that I've read through the other responses I'm feeling pinches of "the road not taken" - what might have happened, what I might have become, if only....

Sad indeed. Perhaps sadder still that I feel powerless to change it, at least not for the next 10 years.