While age is almost always a trait of the wise, it does not come automatically with aging. There are many old people who never quiet cross the bridge of being wise and remain foolish and trivial all their lives. They are sad tragic individuals. The mark of the wise is a calm, at-peace demeanor, the propensity to act on the world tempered by the lessons learned in younger days.
The paramount characteristic of desire and lust is it's insatiability. In other words, one does not necessarily lose desire and lust no matter how old one gets. One must simply decide to temper and control them or sublimate them for other goals. And the practice of doing this creates wisdom.
Be aware, like a blacksmith one must learn to deliberately shape the metal into something more useful for the later stages in life. Afterall, the pursuit of wisdom is not lesser calling but something nobler and higher than the pursuit of power.
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