Your pace is legal. There’s no speed limit on getting your life together.

Timelines for growing up are invented, mostly by watching other people’s visible milestones. Somebody graduating at twenty two, moving out at nineteen, knowing their field at sixteen; none of that sets a requirement for you. Arriving later at something does not devalue it once you are there. Nobody checks the date afterward.

Define the next step you actually want rather than the one you feel behind on. Compare this year against your own last year instead of against anyone in your feed. Direction matters far more here than speed.