has it made him a) younger b) wiser or c) happy?

Other options include stumbling upon a cache of an environmentally sound alternative to oil. Until that happens, perhaps dodging the present is the best option. If it's a choice between that, working harder and staying in and sobbing on the bed, then I say we should go all out. Let's do the Eighties. A couple of months of living it large like we did back then - when everyone drove everywhere, drank champagne, did cocaine off each other and Dallas was on every Wednesday - will do no one any harm. Particularly when teamed with a spot of Medieval Jousting.