Adrian, every word you wrote and every reason you gave is more than valid. But I'm giving you what I'm feeling right now at 44. Had you asked me when I was 17, 25, or 35, my answer could have been different, not now.
Let me sum it up for you in a spiritual type of terminology:
True devotion is to loose the faculty of being conscious of your devotion; for someone who identifies devotion in his devotion is a person whose devotion is in need of devotion.
Fadi.