>>229712It is indeed a grim realization.
Especially if you kept putting things off for a magical "someday" that never came.
I let my health go pretty bad too. Inaction ruined me.
Looking back I had the opportunity for anything and everything I just somehow never reached out to grasp it.
Back then I was spoiled for choice and OCD like indecision paralyzed me completely. Now I've no choice but see all those old doors closed forever.
At 30 (and a half now…), I thought to myself tonight that even if I make myself a 10 year plan I'll be a 40 year old man by then and at best I'd have slowed my descent into discomfort and agony a little.
At this age dreams aren't something magical anymore.
It really is about mitigation at it's core because reality is no longer at the starting line, but rather much further back for some of us.
Hope for something great turned into hope for something slightly less horrid than what is on the horizon already.
Competition is at this point fierce for all the "fun" dreams one might have, the ones you listed. AI just got smart enough to make professional 3D models after it already was pretty much perfect at 2D images and insanely good at video.
Not to mention it's not even just competition against the youth, but against the global masses too.
Realistically you might not even become "good" at whatever you are trying, let alone dare compare yourself with them.
>There is no respite in anything - just slow decay and awaiting death.I'd say trying is still worth it, not for the results, but again to mitigate the pain of inevitable death.
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