Is this the way it is?

Is this the way it happens? We grow older and the memories and skills that propelled us into new adventures and love; fade, turn gray and just blow away in the dust of time.  I see actors;characters kissing and holding hands on TV or in movies and I can't remember how that feels. Or smells. Or tastes.

I think I still have those senses. The ability to have feelings of love and affection... And to express that to others. 

Then why are they fading like so many first names that I can't put a face to or faces I can't greet by name? 

And why the Hell doesn't it just rain already....?