faint glow of past glories

I lived beautiful moments, but they are now increasingly inaccessible memories. Moreover, as I get older, I feel a greater need to showcase these moments to prop up my increasingly diminishing coolness.

Of course, one can not wear his past on his shoulders.

Past coolness may manifest itself in certain detectable flavours of self-esteem. But that is all... There is no other way of transferring the information associated with it.