..when I feel like I would rather be one of the newly awakened, rather than a tired old war-horse who's seen all this coming for years.
I'd love to have the old energy back, the zeal, the righteous anger.
These days I just want it to be over.
Is it just me? I'll keep going, because that's what we do, but the pep has gone out of me, I feel wrung out.
You've joined the side that's growing at least :)
It's hard to handle the people in your life who can't/won't wake up and smell the coffee, but it's the only thing that makes sense. If it didn't, there wouldn't be anything of worth in the world at all.